Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...honeymoon proved to be short-lived. I had just abandoned "The Facts of Life" during a commercial break in hopes of discovering some "Dr. Who" reruns when, after a brief stint channel-surfing, I found myself in the midst of a prostitution sting operation somewhere in southern Florida. Narration was unnecessary as I instantly recognized the genre of the program: it was a "Cops"-type show styled after "NYPD Blue" in a sick rendition of art imitating art imitating life. As usual, the setting was seedy and the cast of characters--from pot-bellied sheriffs to pouty chainsmoking whores--left...
...brief statement in the Harvard-Radcliffe Parents Newsletter read, "the survey questions deal with...the relationship [parents] have--or don't have--with [Harvard...
...suicide has united society in a brief moment of concern. What could have led people to leave their homes, jobs and families to live their lives in an isolated community, awaiting a "mothership"? What role did the Internet play in the growth of the cult? Who, if anyone, is to be held responsible for the loss of life...
NASHVILLE: Twenty-nine years after the assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s son Dexter asked James Earl Ray the question which has always troubled him: "Did you kill my father?" Ray's answer was brief: "No, I didn't." In an encounter broadcast live by CNN, King chatted for 17 minutes with Ray, who is currently serving a 99-year sentence for the shooting death of the civil rights leader. Seated in a wheelchair, Ray responded to King's comments in a reedy voice, rambling nearly incoherently at times. King told Ray that his family believes in the imprisoned...
...month that his granddaughter Ashley, 13, had once said she would love him "even if Grandpa didn't know me," Ronald Reagan shot back, "What do they mean? I know who Ashley is." On a bad day, however, a former high White House official can stop by for a brief visit and leave convinced that his old boss could not quite place...