Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economy will be one of the most important issues. But we will have other issues: Lebanon, relations with our neighbors, the so-called territories of Samaria and Judea [the West Bank], and Gaza. In all the campaigns in the past we had to face the same issues, except Lebanon...
Harvard could generate no offense during the first three innings except for third baseman Trisha Brown's single in the first...
...that is, except the canny souls who sidestep the problem altogether, and this is Silver's eminently successful strategy. To say that Harvard is merely the backdrop for Death of a Harvard Freshman wouldn't be quite fair; most of the plot elements are uniquely Harvard, from the Nietzsche course which sends one student over the brink to the rivalry between Lauren, defiant product of the New Jersey public school system, and a stuffy preppie couple from Exeter. And Silver gets endless mileage out of Lauren's freshman-week-esque enthusiasm over her classmates' brilliance and diversity...
...scene. His schedule these days, which also includes anchoring the live 90-min. CBS News Sunday Morning show, precludes the Huckleberry Finn existence he once enjoyed. "This is not On the Road any more," Kuralt grumbled. "It used to be that we never knew where we were going, except in the most general way, and no one back at the office knew how to find me." In those days, he found many of his stories by looking out the window, responding not to deadlines but to the gentler rhythms of the terrain outside Wall Street and Foggy Bottom...
...heavy?" (from Lee Blessing's Independence, a mother-and-daughters drama that plays like Crimes of the Heart without Henley's savory moonshine kick). Often in these works, nothing happens; usually, that is the point. In Horton Foote's Courtship virtually all of the "action," except for one chaste kiss, occurs offstage and is relayed to the audience as a Texas family's gossip. The play's teen-age sisters might be called Rosie and Gilda; they are as irrelevant to their small town's melodramas as Hamlet's foppish courtiers were...