Word: act
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seasons, Tim Foley '98 will make you want to cry. Those who are familiar with the play or its movie adaptation might be worried through the first act that Foley is not as great an actor as More was a man. But as the tension and action build into the second act, Foley proves himself to be abundantly worthy. His performance rises with the pressure level--the sincerity and passion of More are palpable. By the final scene, he is the martyr and the man; he is, quite simply, outstanding...
...hundreds of dollars of balances that were building on her cards never registered on her radar, she admits, until her father discovered the mounting debts this past summer. Only then did Hunter-Rivera begin to clean up her act...
...city, you need to be more careful. A person would no more leave their New York City apartment unlocked at night; why should living in Boston be any different? Beyond closing and locking all of the Yard gates at a certain time (a highly undesirable, confining act) or hiring more security guards, not much else can be done to improve safety...
Debates are the grandest way to size up politicians: what they think, how they act under pressure, how they retort spontaneous jabs that get past the moderators. Questions, even if predictable, help set a baseline for a campaign and provide a chance for the electorate to see the candidates in close quarters. It is an opportunity to see which, if any, issues divide the candidates within a party, and a chance for candidates to break out of assumed norms and take risks. Debates are unpredictable, a fact alone that might help encourage the media to turn their attention to issues...
...rent crowd than that (think young, smart, successful and jaded, and you?ve got a constituency with a future). Buchanan?s would-be delegates, however, are already out in force, softening up the beach for when their man finally steps off the boat. Unless the Ventura/Trump/Weicker axis gets its act together soon, Buchanan will get exactly what he?s always wanted ? a party of his very own to push around...