Word: eves
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Eve Friday...
...This was first brought to my attention Thanksgiving Eve, as his decision, that he was going to take the advice of his doctors...
Panetta walked into the Oval Office and handed the exit-poll notes, with state-by-state breakdowns, to President Clinton. He studied them carefully, without much comment. He had concluded the day before that he was up against something bigger than he had previously understood. On election eve, returning from eight days on the road campaigning, Clinton had told Panetta about a man who had stopped him in Minnesota after hearing the President's pitch about the economy's improvement and the 4 million new jobs the Democratic Administration had helped create. Unpersuaded, the man told Clinton, "The problem...
...advertisements celebrating family life, many youths venture home in December, hoping perhaps Dad isn't such a beast after all. "They end up fighting over the holidays, and by January they're off again," says Knight. "I know three kids who got on the bus on New Year's Eve...
Braderman also talks of the ways in which movies define gender roles. When she was growing up, films were divided into "girl movies" ("All about Eve," "Breakfast at Tiffany's," "Gone with the Wind," for example), and "boy movies" ("Rebel without a Cause," "The Wild Ones"). She watched these "girl" films for clues as to "who and how to be," in preparation for her future "career as a woman...