Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...person wiping down the salad bar or buffing the floor could just as easily be you and if it were, you too would deserve the benefit of the doubt...
...improving his people skills, has a reputation for brilliance, if not tact. "Larry Summers is to humility what Madonna is to chastity," wrote Paul Gigot of the Wall Street Journal. In diplomatic circles, his untucked shirts, mismatched socks and bluntness have seemed odd to some. But there is no doubt that he can deliver the conceptual goods...
...doubt Latin music will continue to thrive as well. The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges once wrote a story about an empire so obsessed with maps that its cartographers constructed a map as large as the empire itself. Indeed, one by one, Spanish-language stars are being mapped, represented in another form. This new map will no doubt prove useful for Anglo listeners unfamiliar with the territory. But true music lovers would be well advised to check out CDs like Anthony's Contra la Corriente or Elvis Crespo's Pintame or Shakira's Donde Estan los Ladrones? in addition...
Everyone, no doubt, is unique; but some are more so than others, and Saul Steinberg, who died last week at 84, was very much so. There really was no one like him in the annals of American art. What was so remarkable about him was not his genius as a cartoonist or his qualities as a "fine" artist, but the way he combined both within the same body of work. He didn't flip between a serious and a funny side. Both were intrinsic to the same images, which entranced his audience for decades. But this also delayed his recognition...
...same, there is no doubt that Heather May was frightened. Apparently, she has since insisted on leaving the room whenever the President's face appears on television, and she has, with no apparent prompting, referred to Mrs. Dole as "one scary lady...