Word: act
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time!"--a reference to the city's tough-talking Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. There would be a good chance that we would never have heard of Louima and that Volpe would still be patrolling his beat in Brooklyn. Instead Volpe, 27, pleaded guilty last week in federal court to an act of police brutality so sadistic that it cracked "the blue wall of silence...
...seized on the allegations to fight another election-time round of "who lost China." Beijing has denied all the charges strenuously, and its hard-liners wave the report as proof of hostility from a superpower out to "contain" a rising China. Both countries threaten to disrupt the delicate balancing act that keeps Sino-American relations from spinning out of control. Nobody wants a new cold war, but overheated emotions could provoke a self-fulfilling prophecy...
China's primary military aim may be to look and not act muscular, but that hasn't stopped others from wondering under what scenarios Beijing would actually use its muscles. It's a question the Chinese themselves are struggling to answer. To begin with, China is surrounded by several other regional powers: Russia, Japan, South Korea and India. And it has special security worries with each nation. Russia's internal chaos could spill into China's already uneasy Western provinces. An India-Pakistan war--something that didn't look too farfetched as the two nations shelled each other last week...
...best matchup of the play-offs. Though the Pacers are favored, many sportswriters are now wondering if the Knicks' slapdash style is the Taoist answer to a messy season. After all, if the fans didn't care about the lockout, why should the Pacers be rewarded for trying to act as if it didn't happen...
...other hand, she unaffectedly loves her family life. As she puts it, "You don't act better in a $20 million picture than you do in a $2 million one. The only thing that informs the acting is your life. My life has taken huge changes and shifts. And if I come back out of it and do a good performance, I have to think, really, that I wouldn't have done this performance 10 years...