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Word: chokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relevancy of his films to everyday life is undoubtedly what causes the censors to choke. Brutal observations of dysfunctional personal and family life in modern China do not fit into the State's project of socialist utopia. By making films that force the Chinese to look into amirror of their own experiences, he seeks to "provoke Chinese people's thinking about their real lives and stir their memories of what has happened in the past." Yet even Zhang seems wary of his own medicine: he has not let his family see his films because watching them "invokes too much pain...

Author: By Shannon May, | Title: Cinemanic -- ZHANG YUAN: A Portrait of the Young Artist | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

...dinner meeting with some interested investors. As the meeting wraps up, you are asked exactly when you expect your firm to begin earning a profit. You respond by: A) Providing a concise cost-revenue analysis that avoids giving a specific answer; B) Pretending to choke on a piece of chicken bone; C) Pointing out that the profit motive is an ephemeral capitalist notion that will eventually give way to the triumph of modern socialism; D) Changing the subject to the number of clients that will be redirected to your Web page from porn sites...

Author: By Rich S. Lee, | Title: Regis Does IPO | 11/10/1999 | See Source »

...said. "My goal is to place high there and it just happens that a consequence of placing high is a trip to the NCAAs in Indiana. The kids who line up at Regionals and worry about making it to the Big Show are the ones who are going to choke. The kids who focus on putting themselves in good position, racing hard, and finishing strong are the ones getting on a plane the next week. The other kids get a one-way ticket to the Smack Down Hotel...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Lewis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. X-Country Fifth, Men Ninth at Heps | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...Everything you've done in the past they'll forget about and remember this," The Doctor of Choke told the press after the game...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stairway to Kevin: Stick to Chicken and Country Music | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...excluded from almost all policies, it is widely available--on request--and at rates that make a lot of sense. Why don't more people have it? One problem is that they don't understand how insurers define flood. I'll get to that, and, trust me, Webster would choke on the description. An even bigger problem is that insurance agents have little incentive to write flood coverage. Meanwhile, many agents and local officials are so ill informed that they mislead entire communities into believing that flood protection is impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flood Fiasco | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

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