Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...misery: "Money can't change the fact that my child was switched," she sighs. "I live on a thousand dollars a month. Money would help, but it don't mean anything to me." At a time when legal battles over a stained Gap dress have paralyzed Washington, the cooperative spirit of these families a few miles to the south was refreshing...
...people to start looking out for Number One, with no safety net to fall back on. Not surprisingly, that prospect has created deep anxiety and uncertainty among many Chinese. But the dramatic flooding of the mighty Yangtze River in recent weeks has allowed Beijing to reassure citizens that the spirit of pulling together for the common good remains very much alive...
This Jesuitic fine slicing is a harmless, even touching, instance of the sly evasion, a technique the President has made famous, in which a statement is true word for word but false in spirit. He will forever be known as the President who "didn't inhale," but the dodges leading up to that indelible admission are worth remembering too. When he was first asked whether he'd ever used marijuana, candidate Clinton replied that he'd "never violated the laws of my country"--then that he had "never violated any state laws." And this was true, literally. It turned...
...Faulknerian level of dysfunction. Scheduled to perform are heavy-metal favorites KoRn, Orgy and Limp Bizkit, but one relative off the roster is ROB ZOMBIE, pictured below. Two weeks ago, members of KoRn claimed they kicked Zombie off the tour for, among other transgressions, "not exemplifying the community spirit of the trek." They replaced him with German band Rammstein, with whom they share "a great mutual love and respect." Last week Zombie fired back, saying he quit the tour because he was being prevented from staging the elaborate show he'd planned. Don't wait for a Family Reunion tour...
...asylum, to recover from the inheritance she receives in 1974: her grandmother Grace's quilt and the diary of her great-great-grandmother Ayo, a slave. "I come from a long line of forever people," reads one entry. "We back and gone and back again." Ayo's restless spirit twice returns, once with enough violence to drive Grace from her family, and again during Lizzie's teenage years. This leads to convoluted identity politics, for the dead Grace also inhabits Lizzie's body. Soon, Lizzie is waking to African dust between her sheets, the rolling of a slave ship...