Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will go on until one contender backs down. In her blunt way, Madeleine Albright, the U.S. representative on the Security Council, makes it clear that it won't be Clinton. "Look," she said after she cast the lone vote against Boutros-Ghali in the 15-member council last week, "we are opposed to Boutros-Ghali. And we have the veto here." As his chief African backers decide hanging on to a second term for their continent is more important than retaining Boutros-Ghali, he has little time left to withdraw with some dignity intact...
...furious O.J. tripped up by damning contradictions. But merely watching him up there, at last being called to account for his actions in his own words, provided its own sort of climax. It was as if, after several acts of a melodrama with a convoluted plot and a cast of thousands, the protagonist finally took center stage...
...Sunday, Torkildsen picked up 33 votes in a recount of votes cast in Danvers, cutting Tierney's margin to 327 votes, the Secretary of State's Office said...
...recent past, when James, her only child, teams up with a retired member of the Los Angeles sheriff's department to investigate the old unsolved murder all over again. In between, Ellroy portrays the harrowing spell, unrecognized by him at the time, that his mother's fate cast over his adolescence and the sort of person and writer he would become...
...cast is nearly perfect. Bebe Neuwirth is a taut and tangy showstopper as Roxie's jailhouse rival; Joel Grey makes mousiness memorable as Roxie's husband; and James Naughton is commanding and funny as her lawyer. Only Reinking, starring as Roxie (a role she first played in 1977), falls short: her lithe body hasn't let her down, but her husky, quavering voice does. Yet it's barely a smudge on a show that doesn't just give us the old razzle-dazzle; it glows...