Word: daring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Under this all-or-nothing approach, Senate majority leader George Mitchell would ignore the Finance Committee and take the bill that was shepherded through the liberal Labor Committee by Ted Kennedy to a vote on the floor. Lacking a filibuster-proof majority, Mitchell and the White House would then dare Republicans to kill the bill and take the blame for gridlock. "You don't have to mention the Clinton plan in order to blame the Republicans" for blocking reform, explained a White House aide...
Moreover, those few who do dare to test the troubled waters of politics often find that their ethnicity hinders, rather than helps them with their own people. The Asian community is in many ways segregated within itself between individual countries. The Koreans hold grudges against the Chinese who feel the Vietnamese are absurd...
That said, the awful story, nicely paced and well acted, meets its low aims. Keshishian negotiates his material skillfully in a clean break from "Truth or Dare." No one fellates anything in "With Honors," and that's okay. Now we know he is versatile enough to make feel-good movies...
...like Tonya Harding--Alek Keshishian is talented and driven. Not quite 30, he is well on his way to a long, lucrative Hollywood career. He has already made two major films, the recently released "With Honors" and the critically acclaimed documentary of Madonna's Blond Ambition tour, "Truth or Dare...
Other defenders of the rally criticize my mode of expression. How dare I tell jokes at such a serious event" First, as I have made clear already, the event should not be taken seriously. It is scarcely imaginable that had I not offered my 30 seconds of humor one fewer act of violence against women would have occurred...