Word: thrall
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...could not bear it," and receive few arguments from his readers. It was an era in which the word irony described a passing attitude, not a cultural imperative, and celebrity was something pleasant that happened to deserving strivers, not the glue that held everything together, everyone in its thrall...
...presumptive nominees; they are also the presumptive nominees, in part, because they have so much money. Front-runners do not complain about ironies like that, nor is one likely to admit publicly that when he wins, he will be less a public servant than a corporation, in thrall to polls on visible issues and to special-interest shareholders on everything else. The task of voicing such unpleasantness ? of running on it ? tends to be taken up by the underdogs, to the candidates who must make a virtue out of losing, out of not attracting those almighty dollars like flies...
...inhabitants seem to spurn the traditional, anxious to show the world that they can find a new way to live, built on beauty, style, elegance--and ultimate equality. Have they succeeded? In the answer to that simple question lies the elixir of Paris that places some in its thrall and repels others...
Next Tuesday in Paris an extraordinary jury composed of judges and legislators will pass judgment in a case that has held France in a sickly thrall since 1987. Three former French government officials facing charges of "involuntary homicide" and criminal "inattentiveness and negligence" will learn their fate in the final scene of a 12-year drama that has spanned the depths of human tragedy and the shallows of bureaucratic torpor, with a strong supporting cast of ignorance, chauvinism and arrogance...
...Tuesday asked Trent Lott to ignore that bit in the articles about ?removal from office.? But TIME congressional correspondent James Carney says that hopes for a pre-trial censure deal will run up against the same brick wall that quashed a compromise in the House: Republican leaders in thrall to the far right. ?Trent Lott can?t be seen to be doing Clinton any favors,? he said. ?The conservatives got Lott where he is, and short-circuiting a trial would be seen as a betrayal...