Word: dare
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Earth to feel alien will be those who haven't seen ID4. (O.K., the abbreviation makes no sense, and what will they call the sequel, ID5?) The most smartly hyped film of the summer, it is also the grandest: Devlin and Roland Emmerich, the director and co-author, dare to imagine the ultimate catastrophe as it kills off tens of millions of unseen victims and ennobles a dozen major characters, from the Commander in Chief to a stripper...
...dare Mr. Graham accuse me of "ongoing harassment" of Reza Alavi when it is this gentleman, i.e., the editor of the Journal of Islamic and Middle East Review, who, along with his work-study student, attached to me their fabricated, phantasmagorical plot of a petty extortionist with the worst Middle East stereotypes. It sounds like the intellectual fascists at CMES are planning their second conspiracy against me with more false accusations...
...three 200 prelims before winning--and nearly breaking the world record in--the 200 on Friday. He topped it all off by anchoring the victorious U.S. 4 x 400-m relay team on Sunday. Asked whether the Olympic schedule would be changed to accommodate Johnson's double dare, Primo Nebiolo, the president of the International Amateur Athletics Federation, said, "If he wanted to run backward, he could...
...with the Eight, somehow, lead to Buschbacher; his is the only opinion that matters. When he addresses the team, each woman grows perfectly still; when he follows the boat in his launch, shouting out a steady stream of corrections, interrupted by the occasional, "Ja, that was good," they hardly dare look at him. Every so often, Buschbacher lets his tough-guy mask slip and acknowledges that his team is the best, the strongest, that the race is theirs to lose. But if he doesn't push them, he believes, no one will. One day, as the Eight begin oaring down...
...have found is common to Moses and Muhammad, to Buddha and Jesus. It is known to every mystic tradition. In mine, it is the Tetragrammaton, the Name so holy that those who know it dare not say it. It is what the Cabala calls Ayin, Nothingness, No-Thingness. It is Spirit, Being...