Word: weeping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...astonishingly quick study. He is sweet and graceful with small audiences. He works like a horse. He can weep on demand. He has spasms of inspiration. He blows up at the right people at the right times. He is capable of the grand and tasteful gesture. He is the student-government president who was elected overwhelmingly because no one else in school could do the job as well, or no one else wanted it--thus the opinion polls approving of his "performance." Yet he gets under people's skin as perhaps no other President ever...
...black and often tucks a single plastic flower in it. No one is allowed to imitate the style in her presence. Indeed, no one is allowed to see her brush her hair, not even the President. He once walked in while she was grooming, and she began to weep. She also wept as a teenager whenever she did not get the highest marks in class. She was obsessed with Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, who mourned for a slain brother. She rarely smiles...
...disease touched him as he stared into her pained eyes. "These are the first eyes I think I truly see," he wrote to a friend, in a letter cited in Knowlson's biography. "I do not need to see others; there is enough there to make one love and weep...
What made "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and "Predator" quirky and interesting was the presence of a character perhaps more invincible than Arnold himself. Here, Arnold busily spends his time getting impaled, bursting out of floors, and burning enough houses to make an insurance company weep...
...these classes undoubtedly chose the courses initially because of their "gut" status. Even with departmental courses offered as bypasses to the Core, students would still flock to these courses. Offered increased choice, many students will continue to choose the easiest path. While Core reform is needed, we need not weep for the students lotteried out of their precious "guts," and we certainly should not hold the Core responsible for their fates...