Word: exception
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...Except, curiously, Molly. There's something so innocent and vulnerable about Dupree that it slowly awakens her sympathy - especially when she contrasts it to Carl's workaholic and neglectful ways. He has been rendered sullen and distracted by her real estate mogul father (Michael Douglas), for whom he works. The old man is sabotaging a project he has given his son-in-law. Worse, he's trying to sabotage their marriage - proposing, among other things, that Carl replace his own last name with Molly's and, incidentally, have a vasectomy, so as not to pollute the family gene pool...
...might get you. You look so young.”She reaches into the back and begins to readjust her daughter’s blanket. “I mean, it’s not like we’re the type who pick up hitchhikers.”Except they are exactly the type who pick up hitchhikers—in my experience, the only type. The people who stop for hitchhikers aren’t psychos or child-molesters, burglars, or schizophrenics. They’re the middle-class, middle-aged women who envision it as such. They?...
...With both of the airport's two runways now damaged, and with Israeli gunboats reportedly setting up a naval blockade, there is no way in or out of the country except by land through Syria. Already, fleets of taxis have been heading towards Damascus, evacuating vacationers who fear getting stuck in the country if the crisis continues...
...convoy waddled across the sand, the world she saw was flat, dull and yellow-brown, except where the water had turned the dust to reddish paste. The big trucks had been breaking down since they left the base in Kuwait, giving in to the grit that ate at the moving parts or bogging down in the mud and sand. Her convoy followed the route that had already been rutted or churned up by the columns ahead, and every time a five-ton truck hit a soft place and bottomed out, the 33 vehicles in Jessica's convoy dropped farther behind...
Squeezed between them, her own weapon still useless as anything except a club, Jessi could only watch. "They were on both sides of the street, and we were trapped in the middle, and they were hurtin' us bad," said Jessi. The Iraqis used rocket launchers to cripple the trucks. The grenades exploded against sheet metal or blew up geysers of sand. "I didn't kill nobody," Jessi said. She seemed ashamed. "We left a lot of men behind...