Word: admitedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wait! No snap judgements, please. Zimmett tries to avoid theatrical stereotypes, listing acting last among her interests when she first meets someone to avoid what she considers an egotistical or flighty drama stereotype. However, she does admit that her personality includes a flair for the dramatic, a tendency to play the prima donna...
...American military officials at Italy's Aviano airbase admit that the plane, an EA-6B Prowler, was flying "well below the approved minimum altitude" when it clipped the cable car wire, sending a gondola crashing to the ground. But they reject Italian claims that the plane was six miles off its assigned flight path. Flight recorder data has been handed over to Italian investigators but the U.S. is clearly conceding at least some responsibility for the tragedy...
...first set of polls shows that Americans are perhaps ready to admit what they suspected and probably knew all along: our President is a compulsive womanizer and liar. He cannot restrain himself even in the most public forum. Late last year in a visit to Venezuela, Clinton flagrantly flirted with a presidential candidate, who just happened to be a former Miss Universe. Nor can he tell the simple and whole truth on the most trivial matters. Last November, Clinton said he had not eaten at McDonald's since he became president, a laughable lie disproved with a simple NEXIS search...
This is not to say that having fun while sober is impossible. It is just a greater challenge to do so on this campus than elsewhere. We can't advocate a movement toward a campus of lushes, but we can admit that drinking can be pleasurable and that many students are much more fun to be with when within the range of tipsy to a bit intoxicated...
...some of the horrible things you see on the street than some of the horrible things you see coming from Paris at the moment," he says, referring to the theatrics of John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. On the impact of grunge: "It was stronger than anyone wishes to admit." Beene believes the look led to an unceasing fascination with clunky, cumbersome footwear. "The one thing that could define this decade is those ugly shoes," he says. "I can only hope they disappear." And the rest of us can only hope that Beene's vision of chic never does...