Word: ets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gang is assembled, holding hands, linking fates. It is more than just a bad dream. It portends a new development in black leadership. Since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., his successors have struggled over personality and program rather than principle. The mainstream contenders, Jesse Jackson et al., accepted King's vision, one that endorses American values, embraces the American Dream and demands only that black America not be denied its share of the dream...
This movie disregards so many rules of balance and sensibility that it incidentally winds up being innovative. Zucker et al create a spiffy, whimsical New York ghost community for Sam to dwell in, complete with a supernatural subway wacko...
...comic effect by treating every alien he met -- even an American -- as an unintelligible buffoon; and his John Bullish contemporary Evelyn Waugh all but enunciated a Blimp's Code by asserting that no man who knew more than one language could express himself memorably in any. (Take that, Nabokov! Et tu, Samuel Beckett...
...browse through the Booksmith's centrally located table loaded with "paperback favorites" (Marquez, Kundera, Hurston et al) and the store's slightly hidden "New and Newsworthy" shelf boasts a great selection of current-events related books. The Booksmith does have some hard-covers (mostly bestsellers at up to 30 percent off), but its real strength lies in its unbeatable paperback selection...
...play, which is a play within a play within a...et cetera, is a spoof on Greek tragedy, modern drama and Woody Allen himself. Considering the piece is approximately 45 minutes long, the complexity is both impressive and confusing...