Word: exception
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rajballie is concentrating in history and has completed his pre-med requirements as well. He hasn't decided on his post-graduate plans, except that he will continue to play soccer at some level...
...feast for information-hungry voters, but most nights Americans must subsist on the Lean Cuisine of 30-second spots. During the three-day period before the debate, at least ten different TV commercials for Bush and Dukakis were airing in Toledo. They were all highly negative in tone, except for two Bush ads filled with morning-in-America imagery. Through their use of MTV-style pacing, voice-overs and quick-flash graphics, many of the spots require multiple viewings before a viewer can sort out the hostile charges. Seen for the first time, these ads can inspire strong but disturbingly...
...present government, meanwhile, was wrestling with some rare but pressing decisions. Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, for example, must choose a name for the next imperial era. All official documents except passports are now dated by the era Showa (Enlightened Peace), which began the day Hirohito became Emperor in 1926. Although some critics call the convention a remnant of the dead imperial past, they don't wish to end it, only transfer to the people responsibility for choosing the new name...
...self-portraits, with their veiled look of mannerist inwardness acquired from Pontormo. It seems he was unusually devoid of narcissism: unlike almost every other 19th century painter one has heard of, he gave up painting his own face at 31. It was the Other that fascinated him, all faces except...
...Western monopoly. But by last week, as Bush visited Denver, the state was tilting Republican. The main reason: Bush's success in tarring his rival as a squishy liberal. Elsewhere in the West, Dukakis is still competitive in Washington, Oregon and New Mexico, but is comfortably ahead nowhere except Hawaii, with its four little votes...