Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON--Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) said yesterday he finds it curious that the White House is moving toward military action in Kosovo just before the November election. He said neither the American public nor Congress would support sending American ground troops to the area...
...curious what constitutes a "party" and why your proctor got upset when 70 people just happened to show up at your room last Saturday, raising the temperature approximately 40 degrees and rendering it impossible for any of you to move, send me a note. I'll have a chat with both the Freshman Dean's Office and House offices about the fine line between get-together and unacceptable bacchanalian frenzy...
...Considering he was once labeled a terrorist himself, I'm curious to hear the other perspective of the issue," he said of the South African leader...
...thought the "server not responding" and "site too busy" messages that followed the Starr report's online release last Friday were fun? Just wait till you see what four hours of streaming video of President Clinton's testimony does to the World Wide Web. When millions of curious web surfers come to news sites this time around, they won't be doing anything as simple as calling up a 445-page document, poking around (or printing it out) and logging off. They'll be staying connected for hours, bulging their bandwidth with pipe-clogging video data, and giving webmasters everywhere...
...Monsters, he is James Whale, the director of Frankenstein, who in his last days seeks a young man to ease his roiling soul. In the Stephen King tale Apt Pupil, he plays an aged Nazi, living incognito in California, who is forced into an uneasy alliance with a curious teenager. McKellen is the soul of pained grace in one film, the spirit of caged evil in the other; but both reveal an actor totally at ease with the camera's stare. Forget, for a second, the march of teen thesps from the WB to the big screen. Ian McKellen...