Word: tilling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nicaraguan contras, working to revise the trade bill, pushing for stringent work requirements in the new welfare-reform legislation, campaigning for Bush. While Duberstein tries to generate enthusiasm in his staff, some observers expect a rash of White House resignations this summer. "I wouldn't want to be here till the bitter end," says a departing aide. "I wouldn't want to be around when Ronald Reagan packs his bags. It won't just be the end of an Administration. It will be the end of a political career...
...that the meaning of our . discourse, as of any symphonic composition, lies not in the units but in the pauses, the pacing and the phrasing. Punctuation is the way one bats one's eyes, lowers one's voice or blushes demurely. Punctuation adjusts the tone and color and volume till the feeling comes into perfect focus: not disgust exactly, but distaste; not lust, or like, but love...
...being locked in a hotel room by his mother when she went out on the town. "That's when my claustrophobia and fear of abandonment began," Capote said. "She locked me in and I still can't get out." Much of his character -- he played the endearing, clever child till late in life and spoke in a high, childish voice -- can be read as a vain attempt to please his mother so much that she would not leave him again, in the hotel room or with his cousins...
...such brashness was shocking. It was also courageous. Toward the end of his life, when Capote had become a talk-show Scheherazade, his high voice and bizarre costumes were no more than comic effects that served to keep Middle America awake till the next commercial. But at the beginning of his career, it took nerve to fly his unpopular flag...
Before he was charged with second-degree murder in the 1986 death of Kathleen Holland, 17, Joseph Porto calmly confessed on videotape that he had strangled his girlfriend till "my hands got tired," then used his high school graduation tassel to finish the job. Porto, now 19, gave a similar account to a prosecution psychiatrist, explaining that he had exploded in jealous anger when Holland told him she wanted to date other boys...