Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there's a part of me that regards this NO TRESPASSING sign with a distinct pang of regret. Most of us who sign our name to a story or appear on camera have more than a touch of ham in us, and I am no exception. In fact, I can watch even the most revered of movies and think, Hey, I could be playing myself in that film...
...Daikatana will offer 64. (Carmack scoffs at these numbers, saying there's "no chance" ION will finish a game of this size in time for the Christmas shopping season.) Daikatana also departs from Quake's Gothic aesthetic with a time-travel story line that allows four levels with four distinct looks: ancient Greece, medieval Europe, San Francisco circa 2030, and the far future...
...already blamed by opponents for coming within 50,000 votes of "losing the country" in the last referendum, in 1995. His government has attempted to promote the idea of Canadian unity in Quebec and has tried to persuade the country's provincial leaders to recognize Quebec as a "distinct society" in the country's constitution. "It's a question of dignity," Chretien told TIME last week. "The fact that 85% of Quebeckers speak French is not a concept. It's a reality...
...pieces of the novel don't really hang together. There are at least three such segments, almost distinct enough to be separate stories. The first is lazy, easy, short--no more than a dozen pages--an ear-perfect comedy routine of the ancient, comfortable insults that men use to get through a day of work. Virgil Caudill, in his early 30s, is laboring his way up to foreman on the Rocksalt, Ky., garbage-collecting crew. He and his pals jaw away at one another about an almighty hangover one of them has shown up with, about a flashy woman...
Founded in 1879 as the "Harvard Annex," Radcliffe now is legally, fiscally and programmatically distinct from Harvard...