Word: violet
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...speech at the convention (so much for that prenuptial agreement), Bush made the rounds of the networks, granting each evening news team an interview. And her responses pointed to a very different persona than what we've seen so far. By her own testimony, she's hardly the shrinking violet many in the media have portrayed her to be; she called her marriage to George W. a "partnership" and stressed her independence. She also offered a rebuttal to the well-worn rumor that she gave her husband the ultimatum that ended his career as a carousing, often heavy drinker. (When...
...goes violet. Most of the other visitors have gone. The bases of the chairs rise slowly to a glow, like votive candles. They look more like a jury than they did in daylight. More questions presented by the chairs: What uses does one make of the past when it comes to the exercise of evil? How confident can one be when saying, "Never again"? Is it ever possible to relieve the terrible gaping absence that death creates...
...actuality of Egyptian history, Cleopatra was never so violet-eyed and opulently creamy. In American popular culture, just emerging from the Eisenhower '50s, such gaudy shamelessness was still a surprise. Taylor evicted her husband Eddie Fisher, and Burton cashiered his wife Sybil. The Queen of the Nile and the Prince of Denmark fell into each other's boozy, lascivious arms and set off on a saga of extravagant narcissism that became a celebrity contribution to '60s excess--except that it had no redeeming social value. As the civil rights movement marched, and Vietnam tore America apart, and Presidents were assassinated...
...actuality of Egyptian history, the Queen of the Nile was never so violet-eyed and opulently creamy. And American popular culture, just emerging from the Eisenhower '50s, had rarely staged such shamelessly excessive scandal. Taylor evicted her husband Eddie Fisher, and Burton cashiered his wife Sybil. Cleopatra and Hamlet fell into each other's boozy, lascivious arms, and set off on a saga of extravagant narcissism that became a celebrity contribution to '60s excess - except that it had no redeeming social value. As the civil rights movement marched, and Vietnam tore America apart, and presidents were assassinated or driven from...
...Italians have had 600 years to engineer and fashion Il Magnifico Chianti into what one might call a powerful expression of grace. Wine producers in California and Washington try in vain to emulate Chianti’s complex personality of dusty oak with subtle, sweet hints of cherry and violet. They rarely measure...