Word: almosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some respects, the comedy of musical beds and drugs and knockabout buffoonery seems almost made for MTV. The scene of two young men playing mixed doubles with their interchangeable girlfriends would not seem strange to the kids in Bret Easton Ellis novels, who fall into bed with anyone at all, scarcely stopping to ascertain identity, or even sex. Titania's sudden passion for ass-headed Bottom seems almost natural in the age of Ecstasy, when someone who takes a tab of MDMA is liable to open her heart to the first person she sees. And Pyramus and Thisbe, wooing each...
...Almost all delegates at the conference reviled the Khmer Rouge, which was routed in a Vietnamese invasion in early 1979 after its fighters killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in a revolution to reform the country into an agrarian commune...
...Rainbow shares almost all of the CCA's goals for the next election, including strict controls on development and strong support for rent control, and every Rainbow-endorsed candidate has CCA backing as well...
Under Plan E, the city has a "weak-mayor" form of government, in which almost all executive power is vested in a city manager. The mayor, elected by the city council from its own ranks, plays a mostly ceremonial role, and while the council ultimately shapes city policy, councillors are prohibited from interfering with city employees...
...Almost from the beginning, New Delhi has argued that India is entitled to control all of Kashmir. Islamabad's claim is more complex: besides supporting a 1949 U.N. call for a plebiscite on Kashmir's future, Pakistan has marshaled what it considers proof that it has all along controlled the area from NJ 9842 to the Karakoram Pass on the Chinese border. Islamabad cites circumstantial evidence, like the fact that mountaineering expeditions for years sought Pakistan's permission to enter the region, and its agreement to cede some of the territory to China...