Word: whim
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...President Woodrow Wilson's steadfast and not entirely popular efforts to keep the U.S. out of the conflict between the Allied and Central Powers. There is nothing new here, but there is value in being reintroduced to an American leader whose every move was not dictated by public whim. This installment, in addition to offering moving reflections from still-living World War I veterans, also features an appearance by Wilson's grandson, the Rev. Francis Sayre. He talks about how his widowed grandfather fell for Edith Galt, a woman he met golfing and to whom he proposed after knowing...
...tender young age of 18, Lang has traversed the world with the likes of the Rolling Stones and B.B. King. Not bad for a kid who just picked up the guitar on a whim when he was 13. Cashing in on connections that would make even the Harvard Alumni Association green with envy, Lang cut his first solo record after meeting ex-Prince producer, David Z. The album's debut single and title track, "Lie to Me," saw some heavy rotation on MTV and extended play on VH1. On the video, he was able to capitalize on his all American...
...tender young age of 18, Lang has traversed the world with the likes of the Rolling Stones and B.B. King. Not bad for a kid who just picked up the guitar on a whim when he was 13. Cashing in on connections that would make even the Harvard Alumni Association green with envy, Lang cut his first solo record after meeting ex-Prince producer, David Z. The album's debut single and title track, "Lie to Me," saw some heavy rotation on MTV and extended play on VH1. On the video, he was able to capitalize on his all-American...
Elvis himself is convincingly presented as a Jekyll-and-Hyde type character, capable of both shocking brutality and lavish generosity, who expected his every whim to be fulfilled but who struck many as gentle and insecure. The gift that seemed to compel many of the people who surrounded him to stay around even after he had treated them cruelly many times was an intensity which, when applied to his personal relationships, manifested itself as an ability to make the other person feel as if she or he were the most important person in the world to him. In the studio...
...proprietors for his business acumen. Billy Bartley, who works the grill at his father's famous burger joint, gushes, "Mr. Lee was the smartest man. The only man on the whole avenue who owns his own building--that makes him brilliant. Absolutely. The bunch of us are at the whim of our landlord. The guy was a genius...