Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lectures will begin at 6 p.m., except for Bok's lecture which will begin...
...that smudge the lottery ticket? "Nothing would make me happier than to see you, except to see you naked with a winning lottery ticket in one hand and a can of whipped cream in the other." --Text of a Lewinsky postcard to the President...
...farmers' market in St. Louis, Mo. The bus p.a. system blasts rock music, alternating with a short rap against factory fishing trawlers. A woman approaches, says that she agrees the huge ships with huge nets exhaust ocean fisheries and that she would sign a Greenpeace petition against them, except the rock music is noise pollution, so she won't. Somebody turns off the music...
What she said was what they knew: if the broken ocean food chain were to mend itself, New England fishermen would have to hammer out fairer catch limits, along with rules for gear type and boat size and number. If they couldn't handle this, Gloucester might be finished, except as a picturesque site for second-home condos...
...realizes that she is speaking like a protective mother--like Sethe speaking of Beloved. "The movie I'd have done would have taken about a day. Which is why I never would participate in the movie in any way, except to shoot my mouth off. I think moviemakers ought to do the work they do and I should do the work I do." It took three viewings to provide Morrison with the distance she needed to get near it. "And I found myself mesmerized by looking at the story, not thinking it, but looking...