Word: unwrappings
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...life, a closed club with rituals and codes and rules about how to dress and what to call one another and where to sit and what to say. It is a place where two doorkeepers stand like griffins by nearly every door, where the interns in the cloakroom will unwrap his Snickers bar for him, where everyone is so civil and cordial they just pitch in unbidden. When Dole ran for majority leader in 1985, his friends watched in horror as he frittered away week after week making speeches instead of locking up votes. John Danforth of Missouri, Bob Packwood...
...stairs, passing drug dealers and crack addicts, in search of the mother in her late 20s who was reportedly neglecting her child. When they entered the apartment, they encountered mice and five filthy children, some naked, some half-dressed. Though Parent inspected the infant in question, he didn't unwrap the baby's blanket to look at the body or take the child to an emergency room. Four days later, the boy died of severe malnutrition. Although Parent was subsequently exonerated by an internal review board, he remains haunted by guilt. "I was holding this child," he says. "I could...
...hadn't had so much trouble opening the shoebox-size package that arrived in the mail last Monday, she would now be dead. She survives only because she carried the box in to her boss, the organization's president, Gilbert Murray, and left it with him. He started to unwrap it-and the package blew up in his hands. The blast, which killed Murray,47, instantly, was powerful enough to knock two doors off their hinges and blow gashes into the ceiling panels. And it was loud enough to be heard for blocks around, sending hundreds of workers into...
Certainly the "gay Merrill" is more entertaining than the "family Merrill." At times the author attempts an extensive psychoanalytic reading of his own poems: "The miraculous gift of life we receive from our parents comes in a package almost impossible to unwrap; often it seems wiser not to try. Inside are the various clues--most of them older than time--to who we are and how we behave." Any careful reader of Merrill's verse could have written an essay which included those lines; it seems a waste for Merrill to have written them himself. His stories about father, mother...
...Disney has expanded exponentially, its ambition and energy personified by the two bosses. At 4 a.m. one day last week, each man could be seen wandering the park like a parent wrapping a beautiful new toy for his child on Christmas Eve, or like the child waiting to unwrap it. They were showing by example how Disney does things, with Japanese-style management that predates the Japanese system: order, loyalty, pitching in, a fanatical and productive meticulousness...