Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, the religious fear that if their secular brothers continue to disobey the commandments of their religion, as they interpret them, they will stop being Jews. Says Friedman: "They fear that one morning they will wake up, and there will be no Jewish people anymore." Even some secularists are worried that too many in their ranks are being alienated from their heritage because of disgust with the behavior of the Orthodox. Says author Yehoshua: "I say, You, secular person, open the Talmud for yourself. We need the religious memory and tradition not to find God but to find the historical...
...racking sobs rise in a plangent chorus outside the nation's multiplexes, as young girls cry, "How can we survive a summer without Leo?" In the past the season has survived pretty well without Leonardo DiCaprio. But in the wake of Titanic, studios wish they could clone the blond bambino as easily and guiltlessly as they steal story ideas. What works at the movies? What else? What worked before...
What to do on the miserable January morning when you wake up and find you are no longer the most powerful man in the world...
...come in with what we are certain are provocative statements, explosive insights and highly ingenious teaching aids, only to be met with complete silence. We can almost hear them thinking, "just when is lunch?" It's as though the class as a whole is trying not to wake the baby. It seems such a shame to disturb the peace with idle chit-chat. At moments like these, we TFs think to ourselves, "I really should have gone into investment banking like Mom and Dad said. Perhaps from now on, I can just show them movies...
...supporters of the pill worry about hyped expectations. "People always want a quick fix," complains Dr. Domeena Renshaw, a psychiatrist who directs the Loyola Sex Therapy Clinic outside Chicago. "They think Viagra is magic, just like they thought the G spot worked like a garage-door opener." In the wake of fen/phen and Redux, the diet-drug treatments that were pulled from the market last year after it was learned that they could damage heart valves, caution would be advisable with Viagra. But so far the side effects seem comparatively slight and manageable: chiefly headache, flushed skin, upset stomach...