Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...failed. The bloodthirstiness of the story is too much for the modern audience. Instead, somewhere in the final scene--with the chandelier spinning, Luxurioso gorging himself on peas and dancers in surgical robes gyrating to the tune of "Supermodel"--Ross's grisly humor gels to express perfectly that spiritual vacuum...
BOODIL MY DOG by Pija Lindenbaum, retold by Gabrielle Charbonnet (Henry Holt; $14.95). Here is a bull terrier with real star power. As the perky illustrations demonstrate, she sleeps all day, hogs the best chair, is afraid of rain and regards the vacuum cleaner as an enemy. Yet the child narrator looks upon her pet as a blend of heroine and best friend. Boodil would agree, and so will any reader with a lazy and lovable mutt...
Work, of course, can be used to justify anything, as in, "Sorry I haven't returned your phone calls for a month, Mom, but I had a paper to write," or "I really should vacuum my room, but I have so much reading...." It works the same way with coffee: "I have to be alert this week, I have 14 midterms to study for." Or "every moment is essential because I have the MCATs next month." Or "I'll never graduate summa if I get more than two hours of sleep a night. Besides, college is only four years...
...resolve of the U.S. President mattered to Europeans in the most visceral sense -- survival. The nuclear football that Clinton will inherit on Jan. 20 now seems almost a cold war anachronism, but the tendency to look anxiously toward Washington remains an inborn trait. The human mind abhors a power vacuum; even in the dying years of the Roman Empire, free men could probably rattle off the names and pedigrees of Emperors like Petronius Maximus, Majorian and Severus...