Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...black box, bare except for a suggestion of a tenement apartment in one corner. The most conspicuous element is a red-spattered door through which someone always seems to be bursting. Among many harsh white lights that glare down on the action, the most striking is a long thin strip at the back wall that hints of someone peering in from behind. This Crime and Punishment is equally about the social injustices of the old Russia and the arrogance of the new Soviet state, and finds a continuity between them in their lack of Christian charity and love. (Lyubimov...
...misbehaved like a classroom bully. He brashly backhanded many university students as beach bums who loafed on Government loans, blasted what he called the "failed path" of bilingual education, charged that rising college tuitions and cafeteria-style curriculums were a rip-off and assailed fat in congressional education budgets. Except for hearty support from President Reagan, whom Bennett strove mightily to please, most reaction from lawmakers and educators ranged from bemusement to cold rage. California Democrat Augustus Hawkins, chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, summed up the early opinion: "I would give him failing grades...
...Except for Yale and Colgate, which have played only nine and eight conference games, respectively, all the other teams have at least five league defeats...
Maspero introduces the book with a quotation from Alice in Wonderland, in which the Cheshire Cat vanishes except for his grin. In the same way, Cat grins on, even as his hope for his family dwindles and he remains alone and cynical, keeping up the empty pretense of being a child...
...Sunday before we moved to Sodom, I went with my daughter to church, a sweet little Methodist church in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Except to mark an occasional death I have not been much of a churchgoer lately, but on this Sabbath my girl Whitney was to sing solo, and I felt drawn to a front pew, aisle. I am happy to report she did herself and her old man proud, and I carried the memory of her lovely performance with me to the city (she stayed on to see to her schooling) as well as something the preacher said...