Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...word for life in Spanish ought to be Almodovar. As in Pedro, the writer-director and all-round vital force in two decades of mostly terrific movies. He loves to tell stories, whether in his 13 features or across a restaurant table...
...information about your child's day. Some day-care centers have parents fill out a chart on their baby's status in the morning (how he has slept and eaten, his general mood, etc.). A caregiver then fills out the back of the chart in the afternoon. She should tell you, for instance, that your baby sometimes falls apart when he sees you not because he's angry at having been abandoned, but simply because he's tired...
OTHER STORIES TO TELL...
...series of recurring visions since sometime around the Iowa straw poll. Men who are wearing suits and carrying loose-leaf folders put me in a plain room with a large mirror that I somehow know is one-way glass. They tell me I'm a focus group, all by myself. They assure me that I'll be paid $50 for my cooperation and be provided with a box lunch, choice of chicken-salad sandwich or smoked-turkey-and-arugula wrap. I should be aware, they say, that my lunch choice, coordinated with my party registration and weighted...
...They tell me that, even though it's months before the first primary vote is to be cast, they've interviewed or surveyed or analyzed everybody else in the country. I'm the only one left. If I'm not willing to be a focus group, there can be no more focus groups, and everything will go sort of fuzzy...