Word: auguring
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...comedy. (Seen Robin Williams do anything funny recently?) Neither, alas, is happiness. (Why so quiet, Jerry Seinfeld?) DeGeneres is dealing with a triple-barreled assault on her humor resources. And perhaps it's better to be happy and a hero than to be funny. But it doesn't augur well for her new comedy-variety show, scheduled to air on CBS in November, which she, worryingly, describes as an old-fashioned comedy show. Please, Ellen, no hugs...
...relations between China and Taiwan to be conducted on a "state-to-state" basis, challenging the face-saving "One China" policy agreed upon by Beijing and Washington. While the House vote may be in part a bid to pile on election-year political pressure on the administration - and could augur badly for President Clinton's efforts to win legislative support this year for permanently normalized trade relations with China - the Taiwan Security Enhancement Act remains unlikely to win the two-thirds Senate majority needed to immunize it against a likely presidential veto. Still, the response to Lee's comments last...
...Beijing, U.S. watchers believe the spy charges augur more humiliations from the anti-China lobby. They await the source of much of the current news, the as yet classified report on Chinese espionage assembled last year by a panel headed by Representative Christopher Cox. When is the release expected? Right before the U.S. visit later this month of China's Premier...
When Rent opened on Broadway in 1996, it seemed to augur a new era of hip, youthful Broadway shows. Wrong. The Broadway musical after Rent has looked pretty much like the Broadway musical before it. The only recent show that seems aimed squarely at the teen market is the hopelessly square Footloose, a clunky stage version of the 1984 movie...
...restore religious belief to government. Christians in America, Jews in Israel, even Hindus in India were promoting the same end. As a revolutionary, Khomeini sought to bring down not just the Shah's Western-oriented state but also the secular Weltanschauung that stood behind it. Did Khomeini's triumph augur an intellectual shift of global magnitude...