Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goes in for twisted smiles of irony, as if he were trying to bite open a marble. He is the only presiding television host who actually seems to pronounce ellipses. When he says, "Witness the death rites of a Balinese prince in a fiery ceremony designed to release his soul for reincarnation," each dot of the ellipsis seems to detonate on the soundtrack like a small grenade...
...middle class America, burdened with enormous taxes, college tuitions, and unappreciative children. Also large, split-level homes and two-car garages. In Split Image, the Stetson family doesn't have it so easy. Despite a burglar alarm and extensive insurance, these upstanding citizens lose their son--body and soul--to a cult...
...Godot ("pretentious gibberish"), he goes on to attack Mary Renault's The Charioteer. "Oh dear," he says, "I do, do wish well-intentioned ladies would not write books about homosexuality. It takes the hero - soidisant - 300 pages to reconcile himself to being queer as a coot, and his soul-searching and deep, deep introspection is truly awful. There are 'queer' parties in which everyone calls everyone 'my dear' a good deal, and over the whole book is a shimmering lack of understanding of the subject. I'm sure the poor woman meant well...
...differences were obvious, even in personal habits. Begin was the soul of propriety. He preferred to wear a tie and coat and strictly observed protocol, always reminding Sadat and me that he was not a head of state and therefore did not rank as an equal with us. When I wanted to see him, he insisted that he come to my cottage and not the other way around. He stayed up late, worked very hard, kept close to his aides and advisers, and walked to the dining area at Laurel Lodge to eat with all the other Israelis and with...
...weeks ago, when there was a glammer of hope for solidarity within the Square's ice cream community. The imminent opening of a new branch of the famed Steve's Ice Cream on Church St. seemed to assure that the ice cream-loving factions could reach a compromise. Any soul who had trekked to the original store in nearby Somerville could attest: Steve's was quite simply the best. At last, many lovers of the creamy treat thought, the pleasures of an extralarge" up of homemade "cin-ana"-mixed-with-Health-and-Reese'stopped-with-triple-thick-hot-fudge...