Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hawaii is Queensland, except that it is twelve hours closer to Hollywood...
...goes with the Landmark, a publication whose revenues are as idiosyncratic as the interests of its editor, who does not give out figures except to say he has $100,000 invested in the thing. But what it loses in making money, he offers, it gains in making waves. Last year, for example, Windsor's big campaign was to win accreditation to cover University of North Carolina football games. The university claimed the press box was full. Windsor charged discrimination against small newspapers and covered the games from outside the stadium, until he got an invitation from Chancellor Christopher Fordham...
...meet individuals mostly, each supposedly filling a pocket of French life. There are three comedians, who turn out to have nothing in common except that they "take defenseless little children seriously. "There are lovers ("The French are moving towards a society of pals, away from an ideal of passion.") There are workers and scattered archetypes: the bourgeois Plane Bourcel who fears the rise of laziness, or "je m'en foutisme"; the Duc de Brossac who does not know the meaning of the word meritocracy. More often, Zeldin offers type and then shatters it (we discover that Brigitte Bardot likes "looking...
...last three years, the squad has finished seventh, fourth and sixth, respectively, in the nation. And except for that fourth place finish her sophomore year, Finn has seen it all from the sidelines...
MacDonald refused to discuss the nature of Friday's settlement, which Harvard's head negotiator, Administrative Vice President Robert Saltonstall had characterized as surprising and unexpectedly favorable to the University, except to say that "the company was pleased, and I think the agreement was mutually pleasing...