Word: strived
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...married couples, linked by kinship and tacitly tolerated adultery, strive to have fun in what is for them a queasy setting: a gay ghetto on Fire Island, near New York City, where one of them inherited a house from a brother who died of AIDS. But they experience the gift as a reproach for past neglect, and with one set of too near neighbors blaring opera while the other revs up show tunes, they feel like interlopers, a misfit minority. This gay-straight conflict, subtly mused on, lifts Terrence McNally's LIPS TOGETHER, TEETH APART beyond tragicomic tone poetry about...
...Teamsters strive to put their Mob-ridden past behind them...
...think about death a lot, maybe because I don't know about life after death. So I strive as hard as I can to suck every drop out of life. The great thing about being an artist is that artists are immortal by the fact that they leave their work behind them. There is something comforting about knowing that my life was not just a waste...
...call upon all of us to strive for a more meaningful ethic of sexual behavior--one that repudiates sexual self-gratification at the expense of another, whether that gratification is achieved by aggressive persuasion, bullying, coercion, or outright force...
WORLD: South Africa dismantles the last bastions of apartheid, while black leaders strive to end years of bloody rivalry...