Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fellow fellows--all selected on the strength of their screenplays--have wrung wit and wisdom out of racial stereotypes, the paralysis of guilt, the gift of redemption. Five of the eight are women, two are black, one is Native American and another is Asian. They have one thing in common: a story to tell. Which, in Hollywood these days, passes for experimental filmmaking...
Indeed, at times in Conyers last week there was a sense that the violence had been wrung dry of any emotion. The father of two boys who live near the Solomon home also simply shrugged. Al Morgan won't pull his kids from Heritage, and he doesn't think metal detectors will keep determined murderers out. "It's like winning the lottery," Morgan says of the odds that your kid's school will be next. At a nearby middle school Thursday night, a couple of hundred parents brought students to pick up awards certificates, but only 40 or so remained...
...Harvard was that of a provincial. The admissions office appeared committed to having every state represented, and in that class I alone represented Montana. It soon became clear that no small part of the purpose of my education was to eliminate as much of my provincialism as could be wrung out of me, and in this endeavor I was a willing accomplice. As it turned out, though, I could never be anything but provincial. When Harvard was kind enough to invite me back this fall, I came as a far less naive but far more committed westerner than when...
...American institution, but as one which "sees the world as its stage"? Why would he refer to himself more often as an African than as a South African? And why (on an infinitely more humble scale) would someone who had every opportunity to have the provincialism wrung out of him by Harvard, come back here thirty years later as an unabashed loyalist of the Rocky Mountain West? The answers to all these questions have fundamentally to do with democracy...
...Lloyd is everything we'd expect him to be: a predictably amoral executive who clings to the upper wrung of the management ladder like a sloth to a tree branch, fighting to protect his slice of generous options and to overindulge in brown liquids, Cuban smokes, aged red meat and not-so-aged women other than his wife...