Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gauntlet that presidential campaigns have become. The system by which Americans choose their Presidents may seem irrational and demeaning, with its emphasis on TV and trivia, but no one has yet figured out how to improve on it in this age of weakened political parties. By trying to short-circuit the process, Perot gave the impression that he wasn't really serious...
After graduating from Harvard Law in 1980 and spending two years clerking, first for a second circuit court and then for former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Wilkins took a job with a firm...
Still, the clearest sign that kiddie music has arrived is the presence of performers like Little Richard, who are more familiar on the adult circuit. Cabaret singer Michael Feinstein recorded Pure Imagination, 19 children's songs from musicals and films. Last summer, Disney released Country Music for Kids, featuring Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Emmylou Harris and the Oak Ridge Boys. However they play it, this music isn't just kid stuff anymore...
...most part, Katz has been well receivedon the college circuit...
...didn't say that," he said, giving me a puzzled look. Okay. Maybe he passes. It was a test of sorts for the subject of my interview: self-described anti-sexist man Jackson Katz, a former all-state football player who makes his living on the college lecture circuit speaking against the patriarchy and the American "jockocracy" that has led to growing levels of violence against women. Katz, it seems, dedicates his life to combatting sexism. Working from his three-room basement apartment in Brighton--the headquarters of "Real Men," a group he founded in 1988, Katz coordinates the group...