Every five years can be the milestone for another round of self-celebration.
Yesterday, the reality of the deaths prompted a round of self-reflection in newsrooms.
Drummond's art is an endless round of self-appointed, and sometimes seemingly pointless, tasks.
It was up to Gov. Robert Bentley last week to save his state from another round of self-destruction.
With a graceful round of self-deceptions and mistaken identities, exquisite rationalizations and fortuitous accidents, Rohmer pierces the glossy veneer of the social scene and the dignified realm of art to reveal the sexual fury that they embody.
While the passive approach worked, ultimately (slowly, the friend started to behave less like an intimate and more like a casual acquaintance), Ms. Zarr felt guilty about sentencing her ex-friend to a painful round of self-doubt.
But those hoping that Charles Clarke's round of self-justifying media interviews this week would have the same impact on Tony Blair as Geoffrey Howe's lethal criticism had on Margaret Thatcher were disappointed.
After that, Mr. Rubin began what was to become a prolonged round of self-improvement, which he was heard to call "a smorgasbord course in New Consciousness". He tried EST, meditation, modern dance, massage, acupuncture and hypnotism.
The Republican Party seemed destined for a new round of self-reflection over how it approaches Hispanics going forward, a fast-growing portion of the voting population that senior party strategists had sought to woo before a strain of intense activism against illegal immigration took hold within the Republican grass roots.
The first round of self-referential on-air humor — with Leno and David Letterman both making bitter jokes about NBC, which had passed over Letterman in 1992, when Johnny Carson retired, and had now come close to pulling the rug out from under Leno — still seems like yesterday.
The first round of self-referential on-air humor — with Leno and David Letterman both making bitter jokes about NBC, which had passed over Letterman in 1992, when Johnny Carson retired, and had now come close to pulling the rug out from under Leno — still seems like yesterday, and the second round, with Leno making needling jokes about being fired by NBC, actually was yesterday.
