Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everything changes except that which ought to. The examples of the day are terms of endearment. They never change. What your grandfather called your grandmother, your mother called your dad; and there you are, cooing on the couch, saying the same moronic words to Him or Her: Darling, Honey, Cupcake, Sweets. How easily they spill, the junk food of language--chocolate cremes, mocha centers--not a sensible idea in the box. When Michelle Triola sued Lee Marvin for palimony several years ago, her lawyer had to prove to the court that Marvin did indeed love Michelle. The lawyer produced...
...draw dramatic attention to the notion that even the most hallowed of government expenditures deserved stern examination--if Congress had the nerve. Nor were his remarks inconsistent with the philosophy behind the President's budget, with its $51 billion in reductions of outlays for almost every domestic program except Social Security. Many groups who have never felt the full extent of the budget knife complained loudly about the proposed cuts. Congress has already more than hinted to the President that he will not get many of the reductions he has asked for, nor all of his proposed increases...
...doing the same thing now that I did in College except I get paid for it and I don't have homework." says former Lampoon President Jeffrey Martin '82, a writer for the David letterman Show in New York...
...efforts Israel makes, with the support of others, to bring over 10,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel brought Israel (to a realization) of the reason for its existence more than anything else. There are a quarter of a million Ethiopian refugees in Sudan. Who gives a damn about them except Israel...
Kodaly: Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8; Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 (Jerry Grossman, cello; Daniel Phillips, violin; Nonesuch). Except for the Hary Janos Suite and perhaps the choral Psalmus Hungaricus, Zoltan Kodaly's music is not much heard today, only 16 years after his death. It is his contemporary, friend and colleague, Bela Bartok, who seems to have won the Hungarian seat in the 20th century pantheon of great composers. But Kodaly's music, while less frankly adventurous than Bartok's, is just as redolent of the Magyar spirit, and these two works display it well...