Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Academics ought to have a longer shelf life than pop stars. So maybe Madonna wasn't such a swell role model for Camille Paglia, a humanities professor at Philadelphia's University of the Arts. Sexual Personae, a rambunctious survey of gender identities published in 1990, made Paglia into feminism's Material Girl. In a whiny time that sanctified women as victims, she celebrated woman's erotic and emotional majesty. Just like that, she was the hot intellectual starlet...
...always, Reagan gave it a wonderful Hollywood twist. "I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life," he wrote. "I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead." The swell of sympathy and affection was instantaneous and overwhelming, from the man on the street to Bill Clinton. Speaking Saturday night at a political rally in Oakland, California, the President said that Reagan's letter had "touched my heart," and the news brought gasps from the crowd of Democrats...
...recent swell in popularity for the sport may be traced to positive word-of-mouth, particularly among women in the Class of '96, Martinez says. The number of club members swelled to nearly 60 last year, and so far this fall has kept pace with approximately 50 players, according to rugby co-captain Chandra Harrell...
Handsome couple, swell clothes, upper-crust settings, smart, sexually sparring dialogue and a plot device that contrives to keep the pair apart until you think you -- and they -- are about to burst. It worked in 1939. It worked in 1957, when it was retitled An Affair to Remember. It even worked last year when it was extensively quoted in Sleepless in Seattle. How is it, then, that Love Affair doesn't work...
...officials on edge. Defense Secretary William Perry, in France, said Port-au-Prince will be "blanketed with soldiers" in a U.S. effort to keep peace. At the White House, President Clinton extended a declaration of national emergency over Haiti, but officials said U.S. troop levels probably won't swell above the current...