Word: touchingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Osama bin Laden may be everyone's prime suspect in the embassy bombings, but he doesn't act much like a fugitive. The Saudi-born millionaire runs a network of Islamic charitable and educational organizations from a well-equipped headquarters outside Jalalabad, Afghanistan. He keeps in touch with the world via computers and satellite phones and gives occasional interviews to international news organizations including TIME...
...reason of addiction? Doubtful: it concedes too much. Which leaves this scenario: Bill and Hillary Clinton sit down with Barbara Walters in the White House family quarters. Barbara is empowered to hear confessions and grant absolution--the priestess of high colonics for the troubled celebrity mind. Her sacramental touch, her extreme unctuousness, is the very thing to preside over the tonal subtleties of this encounter--the faux intimacy, the clucking censure, the wet sympathy. Clinton and Walters might make beautiful music together, a harmony of ineffable falsenesses...
...this country is ever going to get taken over by any resurgent Russia, China or North Korea. But I worry about the future when we have so many young people who feel apathetic and critical and cynical about anything having to do with politics. They don't want to touch it. And yet politics is literally the personnel system for democracy. We've got the finest democracy in the world, but it's also one of the most complicated. Not everyone needs to run for public office, but every time someone drops out of the system it means they...
...years. The universality of themes is fascinating, especially as it is often split among gender lines. Writing about life defining experiences, the women essayists tend, in most cases, to do so by discussing specific relationships with fathers, brothers, boyfriends, marriage or sex; their male counterparts, with few exceptions, barely touch on them at all, drawing self-definition from other sources...
...heart of the collection lies detachment: e-mail, lying, heroin, dropping out of college, refusing to have a baby, reading through the New York Times wedding pages, working as a bar tender constantly apart from the customers. Each of these experiences is one of separation, of losing touch with humanity, each is a symbol of loneliness and sadness, sometimes even regret or despair. At the heart of this dehumanizing sentiment lies New York, and one cannot avoid the feeling that the authors are trying to blame their unhappiness on the city itself as if the buildings, the dark allies...