Word: weeps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knows how Baiul will handle her new celebrity? She dotes on a stuffed rabbit given to her by another idol, skater Jill Trenary. She is a fountain of emotion, weeping at good news or bad. Her American agent, Michael Rosenberg, is exultant at the gold. Asked about his strategy for his young client, he says, "I see her as the next Judy Garland." For the coming phase, Baiul will need all the determination that brought her so far so fast, because that statement is enough to make you weep...
...political organizers. The heroine of her book is Anita Hill, the person most responsible for what Wolf calls the "genderquake." Women felt galvanized by seeing this tenured law professor who "spoke with the accuracy and measured tone of a well-trained attorney, and did not play the victim, weep or rely on recounting the destruction of her life to make her case." Typically, the author does not develop her thoughts about Hill's impact. Instead we get a list of 26 specific "changes" wrought by the hearings, followed by 30 more general citations of their cultural impact, and finally...
...from the sea. Although more Santa Anas are predicted and many of the state's fires continue to rage, this particular furnace has been banked. That is small solace to the groups of people, who, at 1 a.m., are already dodging police blockades to sift through the ashes and weep. A nighttime wanderer seeks out Skyline Drive -- once a noble address -- and finds a row of unconnected stone chimneys, naked and alone as tombstones and lit by the bluish flames of broken gas mains...
...talking about it and my mother is. My mother is a New Hampshire farm girl, but you'd think she was someone stepping out of Italian opera because she always expresses her feelings. My father didn't express them much in words, but he was a man who would weep. I was lucky. He was not lucky because he wept a whole...
...same thing is happening to me...today I spent all afternoon rearranging the postcards on my wall because I was thinking about what you said yesterday about a person's `individual aesthetic experience.' I'm messed up enough without being sucked into your egocentric world!" Nick started to weep, and all I could do was hold him and assure him that everything was going to be alright. But was it? Did Nick have a point? At least he's only a junior...when I graduate in May, I can't go on alphabetizing my CDs forever...or can I? Diary...