Word: anathema
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dreams of a couplet. Says Weinstein: "It's a genius movie. Could it be streamlined? Yeah, and it could be more accessible as a result of cutting. But Miyazaki is like Kurosawa or Sergio Leone--one of the greats of international cinema. The very idea of cutting is anathema to a director of this importance...
Finally, 64% of stockholders rely on advisers to tell them when to hold and when to fold--anathema to the do-it-yourself mind-set that in recent years has made online investing hotter than Martha Stewart...
...means, among other things, that the only GOP candidate willing to stand up to the party's anti-gun control orthodoxy is out of the picture. In May, Dole said she would retain the assault weapon ban and support the prohibition of armor-piercing bullets--both common-sense measures anathema to the powerful National Rifle Association...
...only real candidate out there thus far, John McCain, is enigmatic and probably too straightforward to cope with the vital internationalism of the presidency. Gore is due for an early retirement package. He has never been his own man, relying too heavily on polls, as Clinton does. That is anathema to leadership. Restoring America as the cure-all for the free world's problems will be of benefit not only to Americans but also to everyone else around the globe. MIKE BOUCHARD Burlington...
...goes without saying that the very idea of vouchers is anathema to a city which has yet to come to grips with the failure of progressive social experiments like rent control and Communism. But it is, perhaps, the best practical method so far conceived to advance equality in educational opportunity for all children--something that Cambridge should keep in mind as it struggles to provide for both the new urban elite, who have many choices and the old urban poor, who have...