Word: decentering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really, really, really love Jesse Jackson, you will enjoy Diversity & Distinction, the biannual magazine celebrating the beautiful colors of the ethnic rainbow. Peninsula, meanwhile, is a magazine in defense of everything decent and godly. If you don't want to write for Peninsula--and you don't--you might try to earn a place on their annual Enemies List...
Some people believe that if Starr lacks clear evidence of obstruction, the decent thing for him to do is stop and file a report; perhaps the decent thing for Clinton to do is tell the truth and then spend a month in a monastery. But decency is a concept that gets more traction in a culture in which shame matters, like Japan, where the CEOs resign when an airplane crashes. America has always been too big, too fractious for shame to work very well--and there are too many places to start over...
...Slabbers scurry onto the gunnery at night, hunting bomb remnants to sell as scrap, and a few have blown off limbs with live ammo. Aleksick resents that people sit up there tax free and then run him ragged with service calls, but he says 80% of the Slabbers are decent folk...
...allow them contact with the kid zone.) Teenagers meet for coffee and schmoozing at a jukebox joint called Common Grounds. (And that's teens only, please; two middle-age interlopers were gently escorted out.) As for the grownups, they can dine in a no-kids restaurant--Palo, with decent Northern Italian cuisine--or visit an adults-only comedy club, Off Beat, where the humor is saucy but not blue. No Mickey Viagra gags; after all, this is a Disney ship...
...disappointing in many ways, but the sheer volume of the songs still felt like a nice energy release for music that has so much emotion swirling inside of it. In addition, the gargantuousness of the Fleet Center prevented a good 75 percent of the audience from having a decent view of Amos (from this reporter's seat, she seemed to be wearing her hair in a ponytail, but I can't be sure). But at least the sheer size of the arena enables people of all crowds--from the teenyboppers to the sensitive adults to the occasional college-aged cynic...