Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole, do we really see boys, as both claim, as toxic? Are we really surprised by Pollack's declaration that boys feel? Is it indeed a "well-kept secret," as his study finds, that boys count girls among their closest friends? Most important, do most mothers really thrust their young sons out into the world unprotected? And if so, might they be doing the same with their girls? Oddly, the hard evidence for this key thesis is absent from Pollack's study and book...
...creative to read as much as he does." "The juice of the past" isn't a bad description of the lifeblood of The Waste Land; but it was a past so disarranged--with the Buddha next to St. Augustine, and Ovid next to Wagner--that a reader felt thrust into a time machine of disorienting simultaneity. And the poem had an unsettling habit of saying, out of the blue, "Oed' und leer das Meer," or something even more peculiar. It ended, in fact, with a cascade of lines in different languages--English, Italian, Latin, French, Sanskrit. Still, readers felt...
Warhol was the neon sign of the times, flashing SEX, GOSSIP, DEATH. His hunger for the machinery and trappings of fame thrust him beyond painting into filmmaking, with titles like Flesh and Trash; into music, fronting Lou Reed's rock band, the Velvet Underground; into publishing the gushing society organ Interview; even into the odd cameo appearance on TV. All these activities orbited the low-gravity center of the artist, with his blank stare and his wan voice that uttered such sibylline aphorisms as "I want to be a machine" and, most quoted of all, "In the future everyone will...
...Alan M. Dershowitz pointed out that a story in which he denied representing Radovan Karadzic ran with the headline "Dershowitz May Defend Serb Leader Karadzic." The story also omitted Dershowitz's caveat that he had not spoken with Karadzic in a year. As a result, the "entire thrust of the story was wrong," complained Dershowitz...
...result was that the entire thrust of the story was wrong. Accuracy had been sacrificed for dramatic effect by an anonymous editor. It sure sounds like the real world of competitive journalism, where the grabby headline is more important than the boring details. Your headline writer has a job waiting for him or her at the New York Post. Your editor may be comfortable at the National Enquirer. ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ...