Word: thrall
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...says, "I can't believe you were so gullible as to fall for that pap." The teary one blurts out, "If that film didn't touch your heart, maybe you don't have one." Relationships have sundered on this primal wrangle: whether or not one surrenders to the thrall of a movie weepie...
...very similar scene played out this week in real-life Hollywood, a place where Democratic politics is a very high-stakes business. For more than a decade, the entertainment industry's elite has been in the thrall of Bill and Hillary Clinton, pouring millions into their campaigns. But now there's a new "it" pol on the scene. Senator Barack Obama had his Tinseltown premiere Tuesday night at a glittering $1.3 million fund raiser thrown by DreamWorks founders Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg. Moneymen who brought in at least $46,000 got a "private" dinner with the candidate...
...easy to see why Democrats are in thrall to unions—after all, they’ve bankrolled the party for decades—but student activists have fewer excuses. Luckily, because the University doesn’t face normal market pressures, the harms of unionization at Harvard are more limited. Although SLAM’s efforts may be quixotic, and harm the unemployed, the University probably won’t cut costs and raise prices to the same degree a normal corporation would...
...Osama Bin Laden, it is easy to forget how a small group of young, middle-class Germans calling themselves the Red Army Faction (RAF) held postwar West Germany in its murderous thrall for more than two decades. In the late 1970s, at the zenith of the RAF's influence, the captains of Germany's Wirtschaftswunder traveled with armed bodyguards and avoided commercial airlines for fear of being blown out of the sky; police set aside civil liberties in a hunt for suspects that engendered something close to national hysteria. The RAF targeted and killed bankers, business titans, jurists, bureaucrats...
...those miserable creatures in thrall to the most vile abomination known as “a capella,” I have nothing but disgust. If I didn’t like Eagle-Eye Cherry’s “Save Tonight” when Kiss FM 108 Radio played it eight times an hour in 1997, why would I like it when performed by a second-rate barbershop quartet? So no, I don’t want to go to the next “jam,” and your lack of instruments makes me uncomfortable...