Word: wretchedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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For 30 years, it has survived the Vietnam War, disco, Cindy Lauper and wretched Boston winters. But this past December, time stopped in Harvard Square. The mechanical controller for the digital clock above Cambridge Savings Bank "melted," according to Nelson Goddard, senior vice president of administration for the bank.
I am doomed to live among the Monimals. As readers of this column know too well, Monimals are furry, decorative computer-monitor covers. With one, you can gussy up your screen so it looks like a cow, for instance. Or a moose. Whatever. I can't ignore the wretched things...
For the Swedish band, the Cardigans, it resides in the encounter of contrary instincts--the sweet, seductive purr of joyful music and the dark, cruel snarl of painful obsessions. Remember "Lovefool," the song from a couple of years ago that burst off the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack and was suddenly, like...
PAUL GRAY has spent 24 years at TIME reviewing and writing about such authors as John Updike, John Cheever and Toni Morrison, but he says this week's story on Tom Wolfe was one of his most intimidating endeavors. "I was nervous about interviewing Wolfe because he is a superb...
Absent from those and any other of Mahathir's proclamations over the past few years has been any sense of personal culpability for the tar pit that his country?s economy has abruptly become. The usual Asian suspects ?- crony capitalism, lack of financial disclosure and plain old-fashioned corruption ?- are...