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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY. Three fellows new in town meet the women of their fevered dreams. Except the guys are off a spaceship, and they've landed in the San Fernando Valley. Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum star in this fizzy, frizzy musical comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jun. 12, 1989 | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...when Hope--a Washington lawyer with close ties to the Republican party--was tapped for the post, many said that, except for her gender, she differed little from the generations of men who had preceded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Lady and Gentlemen' | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...aside two seats for members of the Coalition for a Diverse Faculty, a minority student alliance. When the council would not similarly reserve seats for members of a conservative student group, the group proposed an amendment preventing the council from reserving seats for members of any specific student organization, except in special cases...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Sitting In and Speaking Out in a Search for Change | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

Harvard's method for determining the best faculty members in any given field is, at best, a subjective judgment arrived at by individuals, among whom are many who would have great difficulty admitting that Blacks were the very best in any field--except for, perhaps, Afro-American Studies, and even there some would have doubts. Such a program unavoidably and unsurprisingly mirrors the racial paradigm in society as a whole. Nevertheless, what is being slowly called into question is whether Harvard or the society which it serves is best served by such a strict meritorious system...

Author: By Ronald Walters, | Title: Conservatism Closing the Mind | 6/7/1989 | See Source »

EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY. Three fellows new in town meet the women of their fevered dreams. Except the guys are off a spaceship, and they've landed in the San Fernando Valley. Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum star in this fizzy, frizzy musical comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jun. 5, 1989 | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

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