Word: clings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feeling eerily close. Standards for room-to-room PC networking and the conversant appliance continue to creep toward the mainstream (and each other). Madison Avenue's trumpets blare for bold (and still overpriced) idiot-box breakthroughs like high-definition television (HDTV) and $15,000 gas-plasma sets that cling to the wall like framed art. Still, 1998 was a year for improvements...
...opponent to Bill Clinton, who even Hollings acknowledges is "as popular as AIDS in South Carolina." With a studied worriedness, Inglis shakes his head over Hollings' refusal to call for the President's resignation. "I wonder if you are one of the 34 votes he is counting on to cling to power," he asks Hollings. Hardly a Clinton buddy--he bucked him on the right to negotiate trade deals on a fast track and joked about his dating habits--Hollings considered asking for the President's resignation. He called him dishonest instead...
Play's done. School bell rings. Parents cling to fleeting things: hopes, fears, loves, dreams--time...
...fantastic nature of all of these characters can't in the end, do much to muffle the fact that everything families normally cling to for common happiness is steadily and completely destroyed for everyone in Bette and Boo's extended family: Thanksgiving is ruined in a mess of spilled gravy and arguments, nobody can remember why anyone celebrates Christmas, birthdays always end in somebody dying, horny priests make religion unreliable and children don't, in the end, ever respect their parents (and for good cause...
...exactly, insists the anthropologically oriented Gurian, who focuses on adolescent boys. Boys--who are just being who they are--are making a natural, and critical, separation. And by the way, moms cling too much. Boys are more independent than girls at ages 5 and 6. To suggest something is wrong with this is to "pathologize" boys. Indignant about society's ignorance of male biology, Gurian says we're basing our expectations on female models...