Word: certain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...however wicked pop culture gets with its self-consciousness, I still think there's a certain wish for sincerity that cuts through. After all, Jerry Maguire is about an agent who finally finds his heart, and its Oscar went to the dancing football player who isn't afraid to get sentimental about the kwan. This pendulum swing back from meta-gazing helps to explain the success of the gooey, sunset-flooded Titanic and its Celine Dion title song. Of course, we're not returning to the El-Cid era of filmmaking in which we're expected to throw our hearts...
Heterosexuals don't march around with signs saying, "We're heterosexual" or "My cat's straight." These juvenile posters with silly epitaphs that are hung to demonstrate gay "pride" only act to extend certain societal prejudices about people with different sexual orientations. Though no one deserves to get beaten or killed because of any belief or action, there are certain ways to greatly reduce the risks of these "hate crimes" from happening. PATRICK C. CROSETTO...
...minimize the security risk, certain areas,such as the computer room, Junior Common Room, andHouse library, will continue to require QuincyHouse keycards for entry...
Nominally a cobbler's apprentice, his master is in jail so often that Pin never works. His older sister is a prostitute whose most frequent customer is a German soldier. This makes her an unpopular figure in certain quarters of Italy during World War II. Pin sleeps in the same room that his sister conducts her business in, and so is precociously knowledgeable about sex. He unhesitatingly shares this with peers, who are fascinated, but find him too different to befriend. Shunned, Pin hangs around a bar and tries to entertain the adults with bawdy songs and neighborhood gossip, rewarded...
...Western intellectual life to a pile of gaudy plastic tchotchkes, but Pope John Paul II is fighting back. The pontiff on Thursday issued a 150-page papal encyclical urging a faith-centered approach to reason and challenging "doctrines which tend to devalue even the truths which had been judged certain...