Word: vain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sleep with Prudence, and Mrs. Charlotte Wallace (Magda Hernandez), Bruce's analyst, is too busy searching for cookies to listen to his problems. Bruce runs to Prudence, Prudence runs from Bob, Charlotte runs after both of them, and everyone runs from Dr. Framingham. It's all in vain, however; the characters are doomed to meet up in the same "existential restaurant" in which Bruce and Prudence had their first encounter...
...from a U.S. military officer in Panama. The rebel soldiers, Powell was told, wanted Southcom to assist the uprising by blocking two access roads near Fort Amador and the Bridge of the Americas, but otherwise wanted no U.S. involvement that might discredit them. Through Monday, as they waited in vain for news of Giroldi's move, Bush and his aides decided that if a coup were mounted, they would honor the blockade request...
...story also sounded a special chord for associate editor Richard Lacayo, who wrote the story on the children who wait, too often in vain, for adoption. His brother Joseph, now 21, was one who did not. He arrived on a day Lacayo remembers as the happiest in his family's life. "All the while that I worked on this piece," says Lacayo, "I had my brother in mind as the image of why adoption is worth whatever trouble people go through." Despite uncovering some painful sides of adoption, our staffers came away heartened by how many children and potential parents...
AEROBICS is, first and foremost, a vain activity. You dress up like a teenager from Mars, pummel your body for an hour, and then boast to friends that you are getting "toned...
...even as if it's just the conservatives, or the liberals, or the works, or the jocks who are selfish. It's almost everyone. Even those who volunteer for public service are as vain and self-centered as the rest. Their "helping other people" gets in the way with their dealing with you as a real person...