Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where he can teach the slickers a thing or two about the continuing validity of the simple values like courage, modesty, an equable temperament and a straightforward definition of right and wrong. It was a little like watching Mr. Smith go to Washington or Mr. Deeds go to town. Except that Mick ("Crocodile") Dundee (Paul Hogan) not only spoke softly but also carried this enormous Australian bush knife, particularly useful in cutting through useless conversations...
...life is a walk through the 20th century, and Boyd makes a lavish, if somewhat raveled, tour leader. Todd's mother, like Rousseau's, dies giving birth to him, and he grows up with his dour physician father and his pompous elder brother, not knowing much of love except for the erratic attentions of Oonagh, the daily. An indifferent student, he is eventually shipped off to a boarding school that he actually enjoys, in part because he never takes rugby seriously and in part because he is able to develop his talent for photography...
...Except when Helms is doting on his six grandchildren, he rarely relaxes. He types as many as 50 letters a week to friends and constituents, pecking with two fingers on an old Royal manual. To a woman fretting over her mother's ill health, Helms wrote that his own mother had believed in the curative powers of baked apples. In another letter he wrote of the gay-rights movement: "I view it as something of a nightmare that the Sodomites are so brazen . . . These obnoxious, repulsive people are anything...
...crash's aftermath, each camp has recommended that the other change its ways. So far, except for mostly symbolic gestures, neither is budging. Says George Ball, chairman of Prudential-Bache Securities: "It's almost like a game of chicken. Nobody wants to be the first to give in." Even the two separate federal regulatory agencies that oversee the markets are at a standoff. If any new safeguards need to be imposed, Congress may have to take the initiative by default...
...when it comes to the major spectator sports--football, hockey and, to a lesser extent, basketball and baseball--gender is most definitely a factor in attendance patterns. In all of the above sports, except for football, Harvard features both women's and men's squads. The men's teams get the crowds and the coverage, the women's teams get a sprinkling of dedicated fans--roommates, parents, friends...