Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...however, the fact/fiction bipolarity erodes some of the book's brilliance. The reader begins to doubt Morris even when he describes events without resorting to dramatic trickery. His account of Reagan's summit meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev in Iceland is so vivid as to make it seem Morris sat with the two leaders. In fact, Morris admits he was not there; he went to Iceland later and, relying on interviews, "enjoyed the scribe's traditional advantage of being able to recollect emotions in tranquility." Morris' brilliant portrait of Teddy Roosevelt's rise to the presidency was of course built from...
...disaster (see page 6). To clear the memory, I went to see The Sixth Sense again--surprise, surprise, it was sold out--so I settled for tickets to the Kevin Bacon scream-fest Stir of Echoes. I have no idea how this one slipped through the cracks. Without a doubt, it's the scariest thing I've seen since the old-time psycho-horror flicks (Exorcist, Psycho, Rosemary's Baby, etc.). Bacon plays a working stiff who dares one of his wife's friends to hypnotize him. It turns out to be a costly move--he finds himself hallucinating 24/7...
...winter months approach there is no doubt that options for social activities dwindle, and almost all outdoor activities cease to exist. For those who are not members of the Polar Bear Club of Boston, yet still desire the crisp air of winter to nip at the nose, there is always the option of Ice Skating during the long haul from November to April. Experts agree: Nothing brings people together like skating around in circles. Sign up at the MAC for free Ice Skating lessons and master the art of fancy footwork while boning up on those figure eights and triple...
Last Thursday I e-mailed my roommates to say it was safe to talk to me again. The fragile period of self-doubt, confusion, gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair, periodically interspersed with hours spent lying on the couch, my feet up, moaning, had ended: I had picked my classes...
...passage of Roe v. Wade, abortion-rights activists have feared that abortion opponents, by chipping away at federal law, could eventually succeed in having abortions classified as murders. But this bill, says TIME Washington correspondent John Dickerson, is unlikely to create much of a dent. "I very much doubt that this bill will pass," he says, "and even if it did, it would probably be struck down by the Supreme Court, since it flies in the face of the court?s existing stand on reproductive rights." If defeat is almost guaranteed, what?s in this campaign for the Christian Coalition...