Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...failure, but Lee fails in the way that only a gifted filmmaker car. The movie isn't conceived on a simplistic or amateurish level. Rather, it is simply too ambitious and sprawling, too complicated and confused. Lee has a remarkable visual sense and a truly original way of constructing a story. In She's Gotta Have It, these talents came together to create an innovative, exciting new type of comedy. I doubt, however, that any moviemaker could construct a coherent whole out of the slew of elements Lee attempts to treat in School Daze...
...candidate, Cuomo let drop last week that if pressed he could conceive of running for President during his summer vacation, since Albany virtually shuts down from July to October. He's not saying he would run for President during his summer vacation, mind you, just that he "could construct a lawyer's argument" (he is a lawyer, after all) for running should a deadlocked convention turn to him. You could say, he explained, "I just took a vacation to run for President, so who did I hurt...
Noriega also allegedly arranged for the shipment of cocaine processing chemicals, including those seized by Panamanian police agencies and allowed the cartel to construct a cocaine laboratory in Panama's Darien province...
...biggest front-loading rebellion for 1988 occurred in the South, where Tory Democrats have suffered terminal frustration over the liberal influence of Iowa and New Hampshire. They conspired to construct Super Tuesday, March 8, when 14 Southern and Border states will choose a fourth of the Democratic (and nearly a third of the Republican) delegates. The intent was to diminish the impact of Iowa and New Hampshire, forcing candidates to court moderate voters elsewhere. Yet most candidates in both parties have wooed Iowa and New Hampshire more intently than ever, fearing that bad showings would cripple them before they could...
...tables are turned: Iowa has pulled off a sting on the rest of the nation. Who could have imagined that Iowa of all places could create a $20 million winter tourist industry? This is, after all, a state where the weather is so fierce that Des Moines had to construct a latticework of skywalks to shield shoppers from the wind chill. Here is a state that, though the highest elevation is 1,670 ft., has found a way to lure city slickers away from the ski slopes of New Hampshire. The secret, of course, is the tribal ritual known...