Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yeltsin delivered his rambling speech, it was apparent that something had gone awry. One moment he was pledging to save Russia from a new Bolshevik revolution, the next he was suggesting that female employees of a local chocolate factory pair off with single military cadets. When he finally wound down, the lackluster applause demonstrated all too clearly that even in Yekaterinburg, Yeltsin had lost his appeal. "We've heard so many promises, but what's been done?" asked Nikolai, an 81-year-old veteran. "Factories aren't working, people aren't being paid, pensions aren't being received...
...dispute wound up in a Manhattan courtroom last week and on Court TV and provided some entertainment for the winter-weary. Newspapers printed excerpts from Collins' spurned fiction ("'Don't call me your little cabbage,' she said savagely. 'I'm nobody's cabbage.'"), along with careful descriptions of her clothing. While grilling Evans, the actress's lawyer harked back, perhaps unintentionally, to a precept set forth in Aristotle's Poetics: "She turned in--however good, however bad--a story that had a beginning, a middle and an end, a completed manuscript?" After a pause, Evans said...
Counterpointing the Incandenza chronicle is the sorry saga of Don Gately, a former burglar and reformed drug addict who would rather suffer the agony of a gunshot wound than risk getting rehooked by pain killers. Ghosting through both densely detailed narratives is a group of legless Quebec separatists tasked with stealing Infinite Jest. They want to use its deadly amusing powers as a weapon. Filmmaker James Incandenza, was so entertained that he committed suicide by sticking his head in a hot-wired microwave oven...
BILL CLINTON IS IN A TICKLISH SPOT. He needs the Federal Reserve Board to help ward off the threat of a recession that could gravely wound or even kill his re-election bid. But he dare not put any overt pressure on the fiercely independent Fed, or on its Republican-appointed chairman, Alan Greenspan. And though the President has been pointedly silent about whether he will reappoint Greenspan when his term expires March 1, few people in Washington think he would risk dumping him. There would be too much hell to pay in Congress, on Wall Street...
...contracting AIDS from incidental touching is 1 in 85 million.) There are still a few holdouts on the side of ignorance, such as troublemaking guard Vernon Maxwell of the Philadelphia 76ers, who said last week, "You get scratched on your hand, and then he might get an open wound. I don't want to be there with that. I have a wife and kids." But as Johnson said, when told of Maxwell's concern, "The guy has never cared about anyone but himself, and now he's worried about the whole world...