Word: ward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vampires populate this particular Ellis work, but it's hard to believe that any warm blood flows in Glamorama's characters. Victor Ward, fashion's latest "It Boy of the moment," is the novel's memorable protagonist, an uberstereotype of the male model. "The better you look, the more you see," goes Victor's pithy saying, and he believes it. His lifestyle is the extreme of everything the current culture worships: he can't avoid thinking in brand names and image and speaks with lines from pop songs ("do you have the time to listen to me whine?"). Even honesty...
...soon as the missiles started flying, at 1:06 a.m. Thursday, Baghdad time, so did the questions and recriminations. The bombing was a particularly cruel blow to Annan, who had brokered deal after deal to ward off military action. "This is a sad day for me personally," he said. "What has happened cannot be reversed." In an address to the nation, Clinton claimed he had to strike while the Butler report was hot and because "to initiate military action during Ramadan [coming up over the weekend] would be profoundly offensive to the Muslim world." But even within the American military...
...want to be able to ward off starvation if acareer in philosophy doesn't work out," Sinhababusays...
...asked myself, `What was I interested in?'" Oriol says. Deciding that she wanted to know more about child and developmental psychology, Oriel took a position as a counselor at a state hospital's adolescent ward as her first post-college...
Steele is looking forward to the high level of competition and to playing with her former teammates, Ward and Magill...