Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about who should move which foot when. "They knew what to do," marvels Oltrogge. "We just had to make sure we watched them because they were a little bit top-heavy and could tip over." Occasionally, though, the twins would disagree on which way to go. "All of a sudden," says Oltrogge, "they're going in circles." The twins have graduated to swimming and riding a bike...
Almost any definition of evil stipulates that crimes against children are uniquely satanic. The 20th century has also learned to recognize evil in the violent eruptions of nonentities: an absolutely insignificant man bursts out of the rented room into sudden, violent, gaudy, world prominence. Tiny cause, titanic effect--this is the social equivalent of splitting the atom. When Nonentity massacres Innocence, an especially horrible fission occurs...
...sudden it seems to us that the opponents of physician-assisted suicide, those who have been most wary about it, have at least as much at stake in passing such legislation as the proponents," he told the Globe. "They should help pass a statute that prevents a slide down the slippery slope...
...Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, with narration written by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City) and read by Lily Tomlin, Celluloid Closet is by turns funny and poignant. It interlaces old clips (for instance, a peignoired Cary Grant declaring, in Bringing Up Baby, "I just went gay all of a sudden!") with cogent commentary by Gore Vidal, Harvey Fierstein and others. It should be getting raves at Oscar time--except that, like Crumb and Hoop Dreams last year, Celluloid Closet was denied a nomination by the Academy's documentary committee...
...know that's what happens on spaceships because several abductees were on Nova last week. Even before I heard their stories, extraterrestrial abduction was the most logical explanation I could think of for Gingrich's sudden absence. If he was on earth, I figured, we'd see him quoted about something; until his disappearance, Gingrich was the first Speaker of the House who seemed to take the title literally...