Word: cues
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...television. Yakovlev had invited in several newscasters who had been barred from the airwaves by his predecessor, the hard-line Leonid Kravchenko, and asked them to put together a new evening news program, with almost no time to prepare. They did, fumbling through news copy and fluffing an occasional cue, but vowing repeatedly to tell the truth and only the truth...
...nice that in 1991 there are enough women in summer movies to talk about; for a while they were an endangered species. And they are of sufficient variety to cue this speculation: Is there a home for feminism in the summer blockbusters...
...drawings of an obese child and children with various disabilities, they were asked whom they would select to be their friend. The obese child always came in last. Perhaps as their elders become a bit more forgiving of excess pounds and ampler figures, American youngsters will pick up the cue...
...junior honors candidates normally take two such seminars each. This year, 88 students wrote honors theses; 85 of those students will receive honors degrees. By one count, 70 percent of our courses have enrollments of 30 students or fewer. And as any reader of the CUE Guide knows, Government Department courses typically garner high ratings from students...
...thing, it's no Nixon. That work contained big, powerful set pieces: the Nixons' arrival in Peking aboard the Spirit of '76; the spellbinding banquet scene; a hallucinatory ballet; a tender aria for Pat and a hair raiser for Madame Mao. Instead, the new work takes its cue from Nixon's third act, a contemplative series of interlocking monologues that stripped the statesmen of their blue suits and Mao jackets and revealed them for the tired, nervous and scared human beings they were...