... she was hoping to remind the world of her randy reputations...
repository
He is the ultimate repository of arcane information.
squeamish
...which squeamish readers may find hard to get through without wincing...
unassuming
“By day they [vampires] walk around unassuming then boom! By night they turn into monsters.”
prurient
When Hubert Selby Jr. wrote the book [Last Exit to Brooklyn] that inspired this movie 25 years ago, it was attacked in some quarters as pornographic, but it failed the essential test: It didn't arouse my prurient interest, only sadness and despair.
crony
...his father and two cronies played cards.
lynch
public hangings and lynchings...
confound
They [smilies or emoticons] have since become (depending on your point of view) either an essential part of the on-line messaging process, a minor irritation, or a confounded nuisance that pollutes the world's communications channels.
riposte
his [Bart Simpson] ripostes “Eat my shorts” became T-shirt slogans.
stipend
Later, another stipend enabled him to attend Brooklyn's Pratt Institute...
indomitable
the indomitable Captain James Tiberius Kirk from the original TV series [Star Trek]...
Time mag (?)
foray
Sony's Hollywood foray began, as so many sour business deals do, with bold rhetoric and grand strategies.
predicament
That predicament seems likely to change in the next few years, as scientists learn more about the biochemistry of behavior.
plight
Gregory's plight attracted national attention and even reached the podium of G.O.P. convention, where conservative Pat Buchanan cited the case in his attack on Hillary Clinton...
emeritus
Died. Paul Darber, 93, historian emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.
mendacity
Never has there been a politician so candid about his own mendacity as Earl Long, the fabled drinking, carousing and hog hunting 1950s Governor of Louisiana.
repentant
Repentant drinkers, meanwhile, are helping organize Alcoholics anonymous groups on campus.
slugging
Almost every college graduate can spin at least a few tales about a boisterous night of carousing that culminated in slugging shots of tequila at sunrise or tossing drained kegs into the president's pool.
betroth
But am betrothed unto your enemy (from a poem by John Donne)
mow
“If people want cheesecake, they don't want ‘lite,’” he says. “They come to our restaurant to mow.”