Word: recounting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...line: well, there isn't one, really. Our social scientist is eventually recognized by a patron as Toby Young, a 35-year-old writer for the men's magazine Gear. Young denies being on assignment ("Not me. My name is Jennifer"), makes an abrupt exit and goes home to recount his experience in a piece titled "I Was a Lesbian for a Night...
...good as her tantalizing opening words, Margaret goes on to recount an extremely hectic four or so weeks in her life. For openers, her six-year marriage to Adrian, 20 years her senior and the chaplain at a nearby experimental school for troubled youths, seems to be foundering. He is depressed, overburdened with work--filling in for the headmaster-founder who has recently died--and physically inattentive. Then there is Tony, an old man in a monk's habit who appears at the rectory requesting lodging. Next comes Chase, a teenager at Adrian's school who was expelled...
...Rival camps are terrified that Bush will reject federal matching funds and the campaign-spending limits they impose, and Bush's aides are coy on the subject. Why pass up the free money? To compete with STEVE FORBES and his unlimited wallet, say Bush supporters who are quick to recount that the publisher's spending spree nearly crippled BOB DOLE in the last election. And after last week's orchestrated endorsements by fellow Governors--a draft-Bush campaign for a candidate who seems reluctant mostly for show--supporters are boasting that Bush will be able to raise more than...
...Rival camps are terrified that Bush will reject federal matching funds and the campaign-spending limits they impose, and Bush?s aides are coy on the subject. Why pass up the free money? To compete with Steve Forbes and his unlimited wallet, say Bush supporters who are quick to recount that the publisher?s spending spree nearly crippled Bob Dole in the last election. And after last week?s orchestrated endorsements by fellow governors -- a draft-Bush campaign for a candidate who seems reluctant mostly for show -- supporters are boasting that Bush will be able to raise more than...
...elderly man tells his grandchildren a primal tale of abduction and escape. It could be a Steven Spielberg film, and is: Spielberg served as executive producer of this expertly assembled memoir of the Holocaust years. Five Hungarian Jews, including California Congressman Tom Lantos (the grandfather), recount their near death adventures with passion and great storytelling skill. A woman recalls thinking that the Nazis had robbed her of family, money, dignity--"but they're not gonna take my soul." That collective soul lives on here...