Word: assessments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is the other Cannes festival -- the 38th International Advertising Film Festival. Here some 4,500 art directors, copywriters and filmmakers gathered to assess nearly 4,000 of the world's top television commercials. Schmaltzy or sexy, slick or surreal, suspenseful or satirical, the hottest spots were awarded 80 gold, silver or bronze "Lions" by a 23-member international jury...
This is embarrassing to admit, but this review is a little late. I was supposed to assess all of this year's baseball books, weighty tomes like Mickey Mantle's most recent epic, a reminiscence in the manner of Marcel Proust, My Favorite Summer 1956. But dazzled as I was by his emotionally evocative sentences ("I met up with Billy at the St. Moritz coffee shop for a quick cup of coffee"), I confess that I yielded to temptation. Instead of scrupulously working my way through a pile of new books as oversized as Cecil Fielder's strike zone...
...walking with a cane. On a day when he didn't need it, he commented wryly, "No pain, no cane." In the latter months of 1990, Michael was conducting interviews for a future story about the resurgence of Goddess worship, talking to people around the country who could help assess the movement and put it in historical perspective. The story appears in this issue, and after the final paragraph you will see the words "Reported by Michael P. Harris/New York." It is his last byline...
...poll tax prompted a bloody riot in London, helped bring about Thatcher's resignation and threatened to unseat the ruling Conservative Party in national elections, which must be held by mid-1992. Major's new scheme would assess owners and renters alike on the basis of the value of their dwellings, with a 25% reduction for individuals living alone. The poor will be exempt...
...Princeton's student government announced plans to hold a referendum to determine whether students wanted to assess themselves six dollars per year to fund PIRG. Months before the referendum, the president of the student government informed Rudenstine of the upcoming vote. Rudenstine voiced no objections; indeed, he and university counsel met several more times with student government representatives in the months prior to the referendum. Meanwhile, hundreds of students organized in anticipation of the ballot...