Word: damn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be easy to make too much of Broadway's new braininess. Any season responsible for coaxing Jerry Lewis into his first Broadway appearance (as the devil in Damn Yankees) will hardly go down in history as unstintingly cerebral. What's more, many of these serious dramas are (as usual) British imports, in whole or part. Even so, at a time when many playgoers have lost faith in mainstream theater's ability to satisfy serious tastes, the change in the wind is heartening. Pick a night. It's a good time to be sailing for Broadway...
Amis sees the squabble as a peculiarly homegrown phenomenon. "There is very much a feeling in England that if you get a huge amount of money, then you can damn well put up with anything else that happens to you," he said in an interview with Time. The outcry against him, Amis added, "contained a strong element of old-fashioned anti-Americanism. I had an American agent, an American dentist, an American girlfriend. All those anti-American feelings that you thought had evaporated years ago re-emerged...
Finally, Specter, who is Jewish, discussedwhether his religion should be a factor. Herepeated his frequent assertion that if Americaisn't ready for a Jewish president and shouldn'tbe ready for a Jewish president, "I say damn thetorpedoes, full speed ahead. I'm going...
...there are good environmentalists who see too much red tape and too many mandates, and they think it can be improved and they're right. The environmentalists have failed on this. They haven't fought to ensure environmental laws were effective without being excessive. They haven't done a damn thing about that...
Seven weeks off? 1834 was a damn good year...