Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like any smoky gentlemen's club, the U.S. Senate includes some members the others wish had never got in. Too pushy. Always wanting to change things, even bedrock traditions like due respect for the marriage of money and power. So when the deeply scarred, highly disruptive Republican John McCain stood on the Senate floor last Wednesday, stared down his colleagues and accused them of honoring their debts to Big Tobacco over their obligations to "those who can't care for themselves in this society, and that includes our children," the few G.O.P. statesmen present sat silent while Democrats across...
...race are a soothing respite from the usual partisan cacophony, which makes his cursory treatment of the most divisive issue--affirmative action--a little disappointing. Still he comments insightfully on almost every other race-loaded topic of the day, from the Asian campaign-finance scandal to Tiger Woods. "I wish for a society that treats race as an option, the way white people today are able to enjoy ethnicity as an option," he writes. "As something cost-free, neutral, fluid...
...house will gather round the big screen in the JCR as we did [three] years ago. We'll celebrate with Elizabeth and wish her luck," said Eugene C. McAfee, AllstonBurr senior tutor in Lowell House...
...only wish she'd used more examples. Shemight have gotten home to people that we all livevery privileged lives," said Mary Proctor...
...creature is Lucia, a twisted spinster who loves gay men (most especially her dead brother) with the desperation and security of caring for someone who can never accept her and thus never reject her. She thinks of herself, of course, as the one normal person. "You have a death wish," she tells Bill. "That's so selfish. I have one too, but I direct it toward others." Lucia could be just comedy's favorite device, the useful fool, but Kudrow makes her funny and sympathetic. Her body language is eloquent--she walks like a constipated stork when her arms...