Word: shadowed
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...haunted by what he sees as his sin. It is with Horace that Kenan claims the most affinity, and his plight seems a supernatural rendering of Kenan's experience of coming to terms with his own homosexuality in a culture where it was "never talked about but always a shadow...
...least no one will be able to blame the Saudis, who had three reasons for stepping out of OPEC's shadow Monday. They're concerned about the Asian and Latin American economies - too-pricey oil could choke off nascent recoveries and reduce demand down the road. They're mindful of that Gulf War IOU they still owe the U.S. for getting (and keeping) Saddam out of their backyard. And they're not anxious to become one of the Bush-Gore presidential campaign scapegoats. Gore has so far been content to bash Big Oil (the U.S. kind) and Bush the current...
This is a sensation I have come to be accustomed to in Westminster. Everything here, from Big Ben casting its massive shadow down into the courtyards to the statues of Churchill and Gladstone which flank the entrance to the Commons remind you of the almost entirely male history of parliament. And it is not simply a male history--it is as much a history of privilege and class. My working-class MP, who represents a former mining community in the North East, was almost as out of place that day as I was. Maybe more so; after all, I could...
...their music. It's still hard not to laugh at the comic turns they wrote for the Coasters, such as Charlie Brown and Love Potion No. 9. Such story songs as Along Came Jones and Young Blood were inspired by Leiber's love of radio series like The Shadow. Their subjects ranged from knife fights and no-accounts to class clowns and the clap. That last can be found in what Leiber calls the "snide innuendo" of their hilarious Poison...
Fineberg, Rudenstine's third provost in eight years, is Rudentsine's taller shadow. Slim and a bit goofy looking, Fineberg is cool and unflappable under pressure...