Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week the media mystery of choice was Hartman's private life. But the gated house in Encino provided few clues, except to Hartman's groundedness. "I'm kind of surprised someone of his stature lived over here," said the owner of a nearby shopping mall after the murder. "This is the wrong side of Ventura Boulevard for a celebrity." The perspective pervaded his late-blooming career. After leaving SNL in 1994 and despite landing a deal with NBC to star in his own sitcom, Hartman chose to join the underrated ensemble show NewsRadio in 1995, a project he continually...
...Except that I'm a bit tired of the routine comedy that attends being father of the bride. Here's a joke I've been living on since the date was set: "I've learned the phrase 'And that's a very good price.' I ask them, 'What's a bad price?'" It earns the appropriate level of laughter...
There is a lot in life that's perfect, after all. Perfect pitch. Toss enough perfect pitches, and you have a perfect game. Ask the Yankees' David Wells. What should one strive for if not perfect justice, honor, truth? These things do not exist except in perfect states. While I'm at it, add perfect love and happiness. Why should you not have a perfect marriage? You yourself are heaven...
...getting and spending needs, however grudgingly, the exhilaration and consolation of poetry, of memorable speech, of words striving to be true to themselves. The 20th century perfected the hard sells of propaganda and advertising, but talented people still worked to keep their language pure. They made nothing happen except the enrichment of their readers' lives. --By Paul Gray...
...could until fans lost interest. Ringo made occasional records, movies and television commercials. And Lennon moved to New York City, where he had always wanted to be, and ironically became that most English of figures, the reclusive eccentric. He was shot down in 1980, and the Beatles were nevermore. Except for their music, which is eternal...