Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their problem is the same as it was when they came out of the hills: How to give China government? What kind of government? How does one create a civilized order in a nation that has no history except the memory of tyrants, plus beauty, cruelty and poetry...
...would probably get the full treatment starting about 10 a.m. First the friendly calls from the men she passed: "Bonjour, madame." "Come have a drink with me, madame." "Got a boyfriend, madame?" "Wanna come over, madame?" It would be no more irritating than a construction worker's whistle, except for its frequency. More troublesome would be the men who fell in step with her, getting her attention by touching hre arm, and acting aggrieved when she shrugged them off: "Why won't you talk to me? Why are you running away? You don't even know...
...concert pitch all the time except for a little evaporation here and there," he explained...
Irish law already prohibits abortion, except in rare cases when a mother's life is in danger, under penalty of life imprisonment for both mother and doctor. That, however, was never an issue. Unlike previous referendums in Spain (1982) and Italy (1981), which resulted in liberalization of tough abortion laws, this poll did not ask Irish voters to make such operations easier to obtain...
Between all-too-predictable guests last week (Joan Collins, Erik Estrada), Thicke unveiled his regular troupe of sketch performers. Except for the razor-sharp cynicism of angular Richard Belzer and the loudly self-absorbed improvisations of Gilbert Gottfried, they came off as Not-Ready-Even-for-Late-Night Players. More promising are such regular features as Pipeline, a takeoff of Nightline, which last week examined a prison that had gone condo, and Flick of the Night, which overdubs old film clips with irreverent irrelevancies. The bookings may also improve. Already taped are interviews with less overexposed celebs like Lana Turner...