Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tell the truth (and letters are for telling the truth), I have never minded anything about this wedding. The man you're marrying, a father's loss of daughter, yet another rite of aging--they have all been cool with me. As for the bill collectors, they'll get paid eventually. What are they going to do, take back the wedding...
There is a lot in life that's perfect, after all. Perfect pitch. Toss enough perfect pitches, and you have a perfect game. Ask the Yankees' David Wells. What should one strive for if not perfect justice, honor, truth? These things do not exist except in perfect states. While I'm at it, add perfect love and happiness. Why should you not have a perfect marriage? You yourself are heaven...
What is being highly acclaimed as a "merger" between Daimler-Benz and Chrysler [BUSINESS, May 18] is far more ominous. A close look reveals the disturbing truth. The new company will be incorporated in Germany. After a three-year transition period of co-chairmanship, a single chairman will take charge of the company. That chairman, you can wager, will come from Daimler-Benz. In short, Chrysler has been "bought" by Daimler-Benz. As a result, another great name in America's manufacturing history will gradually fade into oblivion. With only two American auto manufacturers left, we are at risk...
Rather than with Bridget, curl up with Nuala O'Faolain (Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman) and Julia Scully (Outside Passages), who elicit a hundred now-isn't-that-the-truth moments. O'Faolain, a celebrated columnist at the Irish Times, is more than a female Frank McCourt. While she's no slouch at depicting old-sod poverty--sleeping with a scrap of sheet to keep her father's overcoat from scratching her chin and dreaming of a place to hang her ragged clothes--her real strength is in her close-to-the-bone rendering...
...hope that it will always remain in the present. When I have found something to express, I have done it without thinking of the past or the future." Interestingly, he also stood against the Expressionist belief that the work of art gains value by disclosing the truth, the inner being, of its author. "How can anyone enter into my dreams, my instincts, my desires, my thoughts...and above all grasp from them what I have been about--perhaps against my own will?" he exclaimed...