Word: whim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hobnobbery journalism was most widespread during the Kennedy Administration. In his elitist way, Kennedy preferred the company of journalists to politicians. Many journalists who enjoyed the intimacy knew they could be excluded at any moment by presidential whim or pique; they got insiders' confidences but at the price of being courtiers; they felt uneasy at the time, and many felt regretful later...
...clothing, speech and thought. No, the world since women's lib has become a terrifying jungle for nice guys who never did anyone any harm; nowadays they can't even watch television without fearing that the Amazons will burst in, hunting hapless creatures to bend to their incomprehensible whim and will...
...should have made no fuss and stuffed myself like you or anyone else." In In the Penal Colony, needles write the excruciating message BE JUST on the back of a condemned man. In Investigations of a Dog, the canine narrator cannot admit that his species is subject to the whim and will of a larger power...
...from Cambridge. Mass It is no accident either that he's a Democrat, because there essentially is no Republican party in the city (of the five state legislative races covering Cambridge last fall, only one was contested by a GOP candidate who got drubbed) And it is no mere whim of fate that he is a successful pol, because the city has a grand tradition of training aspiring officeholders with good old fashioned street corner, rough and tumble politics...
...should not Puerto Rico, which is very beautiful, look like itself? Because the client is a French company, and the client says so, that's why. Don't argue. Lancôme is paying a boxcarful of money for its whim (some $9,000 a day, or more than $1,100 an hour, for instance, just for the services of Star Model Isabella Rossellini), and arguing costs about $50 a word. So Nick LaMicela, the project's art director, has selected a quiet country road, with no palm trees to spoil the illusion of France. Somebody...