Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sexism, they have often gone unheard as male civil rights leaders did the talking for their race and white feminists did the talking for their sex. In recent years a growing chorus of black female writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker has begun to direct a passionate blast against male chauvinists on both sides of the color line. But there has seldom been an indictment of the self-absorption and self-delusion of the corporate male, both white and black, as stinging -- or hilarious -- as Jill Nelson's wildly uneven account of her four-year misadventure as a reporter...
...standing connection with her Yale Law School classmates Bill and Hillary. But Reno came to genuinely like Guinier, and hoped to work with her. Once the President decided otherwise, White House officials complain, Reno still gave Guinier a room at the Justice Department to hold a press conference and blast the President for abandoning...
...great differences. Porter was a more nuanced and daring colorist than Hartley; his world is more lyric than Hopper's, and on the whole untouched by melancholy. It is also more generalized in treatment. In a large painting like Island Farmhouse, 1969, the white weatherboard asserts itself in a blast of light like a Doric temple; the lines of shadow are a burning visionary yellow; everything, from the angular dog to the ragged trees, is seen in sharp patches, and yet one's eye feels bathed in atmosphere, all the way out to the blue island on the remote horizon...
Well, not so fast. The World Trade Center bombers, for all their ineptitude -- one expert on terrorism likens them to the Three Stooges -- did set off a blast that killed six people and injured more than 1,000. Their would-be imitators failed mostly because a confidential informant inside the ring helped the FBI keep his comrades under close surveillance. FBI men dubbed him "the Colonel"; he was later identified as Emad Salem, 43, a former Egyptian military officer...
...with three older brothers was tough on me, but it's still so fun, I love it," She says. "My family has really given me a lot of support. I know there will always be funs at a game when my family is coming. It's been a blast...