Word: act
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fight gone bad. "I just whirled around as usual. I did everything as choreographed, and then as I was bent over, I saw pools of blood on the stage." But even after the incident, he decided to keep performing--after all, it was only the beginning of the second act. "As long as I wasn't woozy or anything, I had to keep going. I owed it to the audience and the company to carry on," he says. Weil stayed for another 30 minutes, which included the show-stopping, spangled finale. After the final curtain call and standing ovation...
...suit was filed just days after a new law, The Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, made it illegal for Internet users to buy Web addresses with the intent of selling them for profit...
...overseers of the project for the last two years, they act as liaisons between a myriad of local coordinators, administrative deans and vice presidents, each of whom have reviewed and approved contingency plans...
...suggest that the imagined plight of conservatives is in any way comparable to the oppressively real struggles of queer communities is an act, at best, of shameful disingenuousness. At worst, it is a frank assault. Implicit in this false parallel is the fantasy of a queer conspiracy putting the increasingly fragile American family, character and more under siege. For example, a recent staff editorial in The Salient accused the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance of domesticating the Undergraduate Council into a queer lapdog and making Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 into a mere bedfellow...
...Coming out" is the experience of declaring one's sexual orientation to friends and family. It is an act that always demands great bravery and often results in tragic consequences. "Coming out" is not part of any radical political agenda. Whatever qualms conservatives may have about the gay rights movement, they surely cannot object to homosexuals sharing their identity with others...