Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans have started seeking out the same kind of miracle cures for emotional illnesses, particularly in relationships. Instead of soothing gel-caps, heartache medicines come in either hardcover or paperback. The popularity of self-help books on relationships and the mysteries of man-and womanhood has certainly served to entertain, but at the same time, it has also over-simplified and limited people's conceptions of love and gender...
...their best, the films forge new connections in the mind while presenting a complete aesthetic. At their worst, they entertain with bouncy motion and sustain curiosity for the techniques which created them. In between lies a fertile ground of freely-moving shapes which suggest the beginnings of Bauhaus, Pop and MTV-style images...
...Lawrence had an easy time of it Friday, ripping Union 6-3 behind two goals from winger Mark McGrath, but it took a power play goal with 16 seconds left to lift the Saints over gritty RPI. There will be no rest for St. Lawrence this weekend, as they entertain conference foes Harvard and Brown in Canton...
Under another senior Republican, Jesse Helms, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has virtually ceased to function. The Administration wouldn't entertain his reorganization plan for the State Department, so Helms retaliated by refusing for months to confirm 18 ambassadors. Meanwhile, START II, the chemical-weapons convention, nine bilateral investment treaties and other pacts are also languishing. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott says Congress is "flirting with ideas that are isolationist in their potential consequence if not in their actual intent. There's a resurgence of the view that we can now afford to go it alone." This is hardly...
...rights of non-Jewish Israelis: For me what is most important is to have a Jewish state in which at least 80% of its population is Jewish. [But] the non-Jewish citizens--the Palestinians, Muslims, Christians--should entertain all a person's civilian political rights, because I believe that racism and Judaism by essence are in contradiction. The Palestinians in their schools, government-paid schools, are entitled--be they Muslims or Christians--to have their religion, to have their culture, their language, their heritage. I believe that they can be loyal Israeli citizens while maintaining their special identity...