Word: whisperingly
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...condom, beaten silly and thrown into the streets. Over there lies a man desperately sick without access to a doctor or clinic or medicine or food or blankets or even a kind word. At work you eat with colleagues, and every third one is already fatally ill. You whisper about a friend who admitted she had the plague and whose neighbors stoned her to death. Your leisure is occupied by the funerals you attend every Saturday. You go to bed fearing adults your age will not live into their 40s. You and your neighbors and your political and popular leaders...
...condom, beaten silly and thrown into the streets. Over there lies a man desperately sick without access to a doctor or clinic or medicine or food or blankets or even a kind word. At work you eat with colleagues, and every third one is already fatally ill. You whisper about a friend who admitted she had the plague and whose neighbors stoned her to death. Your leisure is occupied by the funerals you attend every Saturday. You go to bed fearing adults your age will not live into their 40s. You and your neighbors and your political and popular leaders...
...bossa nova") was smooth, stripped-down music, but full of strange harmonies and unusual syncopation. While other musical acts of the period were singing and performing in more overtly expressive ways, the vocals and guitar playing in Jobim's work were intimate and quiet, and commanded attention like the whisper of a secret. It was a music proud of its nonconformist nature (one of Jobim's hits, "Desafinado" (or "off-key") celebrates the genre's subtly unsettling sound). Of course, today, decades later, people in the States listen to "The Girl From Ipanema" and, to unschooled ears, it sounds like...
...perhaps because everyone knows he will look first to Powell and Cheney on military matters. Already one top contender has withdrawn: with Powell's backing, Bush floated Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge for the spot, but Ridge withdrew about the same time that the G.O.P.'s right wing began to whisper out loud that the one-time Army artilleryman was soft on defense. Now leading the short list is retired Indiana Senator Dan Coats, a former Senate aide to Dan Quayle, whose selection would make the conservatives happier...
...Throw Momma from the Train (speaking of matricide) has certainly influenced our choices in years since. Familial resentment should be the subtext of a holiday, not the text. Avoid any story line that requires you to lean across your father during the movie and whisper, "I love...