Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...blame Harvard. Had the pre-med courses been a little bit more difficult, I would have dropped the sequence and wound up a VES major. Right now, I would be preparing for a career in chicken-bone sculpture. My only concern would be decreasing the number of aesthetic dissonances in my life...
Fortunately for Richards, bidding to become the first woman Governor of Texas since Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson ruled the state from 1925 to 1927, Republican nominee Williams suffered a self-inflicted wound that could cripple him. He joked that bad weather was inevitable, like rape, and the only thing to do was to "relax and enjoy it." He said later he was kidding, an apology that may work with the so-called Bubba vote. Women may not be so forgiving, particularly those who were already leaning toward Richards as the pro-choice candidate...
...want to be compared to people like Suzanne Vega, because I don't like wishy-washy music." She declines to analyze her own work but is keen about rap, reggae and Michael Jackson ("He's a doll, he's a god") and is open as a wound about the lacerating Irish upbringing from which many of her lyrics spring ("I'm walking through the desert/ And I am not frightened although it's hot/ I have all that I requested/ And I do not want what I haven't got/ I have learned this from my mother...
Savage has developed a reputation on Capitol Hill as something between a rascal and a scoundrel. An energetic promoter of minority set-aside contracts, Savage's most notable achievement was to push the construction of a 27-story federal building that wound up in another Chicago congressional district. He is also known for sponsoring seven resolutions honoring heavyweight boxer Joe Louis. All died in committee. Recently, the House ethics committee reprimanded him for making sexual advances to a female Peace Corps volunteer during a trip to Zaire...
Peter Shaffer (Equus, Amadeus) wrote this as a showcase for Dame Maggie Smith, the two-time Oscar winner who was last seen on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's Night and Day in 1979. All her trademark mannerisms are in evidence, from the nasal drawl of contempt to the wounded-crow flutter of arms and hands. So is the open-wound vulnerability that brings her fey lunacy back to earth. She takes a character who is mostly an idea, a conceit -- a person for whom pretending is more real than reality -- and invests her with poignancy and pride. In spirit Lettice...