Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington chain-smokes Kools and, except for an occasional jog, fencing match or pool game, prefers being a spectator. But, with 215 Ibs. packed solidly on a 5-ft. 10-in. frame, he wore out bodyguards 25 years his junior during the campaign, getting by on five hours' sleep a night. The schedule was typical of the Congressman, an amiable but intensely private man. His modest Hyde Park apartment in Chicago is strewn with newspapers and books. He rarely indulges in vacations and avoids the social scene in Washington...
...Except for Gandhi, most of the major winners were hardly surprises. Meryl Streep was named Best Actress for her dazzling performance as the doomed survivor of the Nazi camps in Sophie's Choice. Ben Kingsley won the Best Actor award for his uncanny portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi; Louis Gossett Jr. was chosen Best Supporting Actor for his hard-nosed drill sergeant in An Officer and a Gentleman; and Jessica Lange, who was also running in the Best Actress category for Frances, was picked as Best Supporting Actress for playing the girl who gets the girl, Dustin Hoffman, in Tootsie...
...artistically as never before. In unprecedented numbers, they are setting new standards of excellence in performance. In the process, they are changing the face of the country's traditional orchestral establishment. Declares Sir Georg Solti, music director of the Chicago Symphony: "American orchestras are undoubtedly superior to any, except one or two European orchestras. The standard of orchestral playing in America, all over the country, is amazing...
...scarcely thought of leaving her rigid culture until it began to shatter violently around her. She dreamed of joining her husband in America, but she did not try to learn his Western ways. Though he had bought her a big brass bed, she slept on rugs on the floor except when he was home. When he sent her a feather duster, she put it in a vase and displayed it in the best of her house's four rooms...
...second problem facing hatters is that, except in a metaphysical sense, the hat is far less necessary than it once was. Men confront the elements only briefly, as they walk through the parking lot. So hats and hatters live at the mercy of fashion, the whimsical Red Queen. ("Off with their hats...