Word: uprighteous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only Thatcher seemed out of place among theworld leaders. While most of the leaders worecasual attire, Thatcher sat stiffly upright in afancy dress, applauding politely for the rodeoacts...
...Wozencraft is a former narcotics policewoman who got hooked on drugs and became an armed robber. In this fictive treatment, the protagonist is called Kristen Cates, but all resemblances to the author are strictly intentional. The upright Texas girl gets hooked in order to trap a dealer, backslides into the nightmare underworld of pushers and addicts, and finally surfaces in another kind of purgatory: jail. Rush (Random House; 260 pages; $18.95), Wozencraft's tale of temptation, fall and rehab, sometimes gropes for expression, as if the recollections were too painful for words. In every sense, this should make one hell...
...world's main source of international venture capital. The patrimony of overseas assets thus accumulated went to pay the costs of fighting two world wars. By 1945, Britain was, in international terms, broke. Deprived of its underpinning of foreign assets, sterling became a wobbly currency, held precariously upright by a stiff corset of exchange controls. As late as 20 years after the war, Britons were forbidden to take more than (pounds)50 out of the country. Direct investment overseas required special dispensation from the Bank of England; portfolio investment was virtually banned...
Maybe I'm just projecting, but as far as I can tell, the typical Harvard student is repressed and sexually frustrated. We walk around buckling under the weight of our backpacks, jerking upright when we sense an attractive peer nearby. "Where? Where...
From a huge caldron on the kitchen stove in a London flat wafts the comforting aroma of classic chicken soup, enough to feed a hungry orchestra. From a small upright piano in the living room wafts a bittersweet trickle of melody, enough to feed a hungry spirit. Michael Tilson Thomas, the 45-year-old principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, is cooking on both burners...