The next thing I knew, I was a punk. It went with the anarchism, the chaos both inner and outer, the sense of everything going to ashes and ruin, so you might as well light up the joint, drink all the cheap vodka, go to the show, find a safe corner to pogo in at concerts at...
We sat at the kitchen table, and Trudy was very quiet. Her eyes darted back and forth like a creature looking for a way out. This had been her fifth foster home since she was eleven. No wonder she was afraid. I wa...
…but I do believe that our country, the land of the “Free” has spent a lot of time preening in a false reflection, not looking at the reality, eyes focused on the future, and not on the “now.” …and that action costs us in ways great and small. ...
Once at the hospital, I pulled the van into a parking spot near the entrance. Aliphine perked up and preened a feather or two, seemingly animated, as infants are, by the transition from automotive movement to stillness. Without explicitly asking my children what their choice was—to enter ...
she’s a superb actress who is not a beauty but lights up anything she is in in just the way wanted — she can play more ambivalent characters and as comic/parodic; I love her as Fanny Price.) — still the reason she remains safe is her lucky birth. Her innate goodness is like ...
Western, white women thrill to the thought that immature transgressive behavior marks them as independent thinkers. It doesn’t; it marks them as ignorant, gullible and willing to take terrible risks with the lives of their children for no better reason that to preen to themselves and others. ...
This world has gone mad and I don’t propose to protect the people who made this world from harm. They should have thought about it while they were destroying everything…I’m not going to hide a guy behind walls and guns where he’s safe from the consequences of his actions. Perhaps...
“Stand with the Sun behind you and you’ll get a nice photograph.”Safe advice, often given to new photographers… I think that film manufacturers wrote something similar in with the rolls of film(I’m assuming some of you remember “film” for prints or slides).It was not cheap, and...
( 要点2)Secondly, the bus drivers have to pass strict qualification tests and safety driving trainings( 要点3).Thirdly, school buses, powered by green fuels, are environmentally safe by reducing the number of private cars hitting the roads.(高分句型二)(要点 4)Therefore, children are encouraged...
Parts of this process are unconscious, parts unavoidable —inadequate documentation and all that— but parts are willed, the result of our nearly magical capacity for self-delusion and our deep need to feel secure, safe, decent. If one were to write a review of The Sense of an Ending ...