Word: teared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Carrie helps her tear off the brown postal paper. Harriet has sent her a jar of pink body glitter and some brightly colored nail polish, rolled up in two Guam T-shirts. Carrie can't stop laughing. She holds a T-shirt up to her chest and bats her eyelashes...
BGLTSA has personally insulted homosexuals and their supporters at large. But although a great many of us would rather not have children passers-by reading BGLTSA's exhortations to pedophilia or obscure, nauseating references to auto-oral-menstrual-eroticism, I saw no conservatives tear down Tuesday's ubiquitous smut. Imagine my outrage, then, upon seeing an avowed liberal, wearing the "coming out day" sticker, nonchalantly destroy two Republican candidate posters Tuesday evening. This movement must abandon its false pretense of open-mindedness. The increasingly bogus "queer" agenda won no supporters and gained at least this opponent today...
...have fun he did. Wooten's masterful control over his instrument, coupled with his audience communication made each song unique. Wooten played all of his best material, from an almost beautifully tear-inducing "Amazing Grace" to "Norwegian Wood" to a funky version of "I Feel Alright." Monday night's break brought out the mellower, funkier side of Wooten. He played James Brown the way only he could, playing chords and thematic progressions in different time. Then, on Tuesday night, Wooten jammed for close to four hours and played four encores...
...Webern's Piano Variations are mirror variations: Everything reflects. So too, Morris suggests, does everything in Reagan's life. His famous words, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!" are foreshadowed in his college days, when Reagan plays a part in Edna St. Vincent Millay's Aria da Capo and speaks the lines, "This wall is actually a wall, a thing / Come up between us, shutting me away." One of the most jarring moments of Reagan's otherwise happy childhood is when he comes home one night to find his father passed out, drunk, on the snow of their front yard...
Sensationalism is puerile, immature and ineffective. It serves only to tear apart communities and individuals within those communities. The suicide of a particular student at an American university last year best embodies this phenomenon. In his own words...