Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game was unexceptional except for the play of Busquets. The senior scored an extraordinary eight goals in the game. It was the best single-game performance by a Crimson poloman since legend Jeff Zimmerman scored nine against Brown two years...
Churches caution parishioners to avoid attempts at quick gain--except while turning out for the weekly bingo game...
While casino supporters can point to the success of Foxwoods, Roosevelt spokesperson Dwight D. Robson points instead to Atlantic City, N.J., where virtually every business in town except for the casinos has died since gambling came to town...
...North and Duke get so far with such pockmarked pasts? Sure, they both have that gap-toothed charisma, but neither of them came from any side of politics except the underside. It seems that a claim to being "a good Christian"--or at least a repentant one--has become more important than any political savvy or competence. Of course, tens of millions of Americans bear this credential and amazingly resist running for high office. Maybe you also have to write a book, like North, but we have yet to see whether that will work for Dan Quayle...
Still, one leaves this rich meal feeling curiously empty. The reason may be that Rorem has been voluble about every facet of his life except whom and what he really cares about. Explaining why he felt his protege was "not a dependable critic," Virgil Thomson once said of Rorem, "His egocentricity gets in the way. It prevents his seriously liking or hating anything." Rorem quotes this remark, along with others even less flattering about himself. It's a gutsy thing to do, but it only points to a terrible void...