Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were starting with a coaching plan for the beginning of the year, every thing went perfect for us except Thomas getting hurt," Fish said. "As a regional representative you have to keep some credibility and pretending that Thomas is perfect is not the way we do things. If Thomas had not gotten hurt, we would have been the 12th seed and it would have been a whole different story...
News of contributions from American alumni regularly appears in the University fundraising newsletter, resources, and the administration's newspaper, the Gazette. Except for a feature in the summer 1996 issue of resources about Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation, however, Asian supporters have received little public attention...
...antimatter counterpart of protons, antiprotons are believed to be exactly the same as protons except that they have a negative charge instead of a positive charge. Antimatter is not generally found in nature...
...fabulous morning, and Truman chirps back, "Always!" He's headed for his honorable job as an insurance salesman, then home to his blond, bedimpled wife Meryl, perhaps off for a late brewski with his best friend, Marlon. You have it all, Truman: good afternoon, good evening and good night! Except for one thing, folks. The whole kit and kaboodle is fake. Truman (Jim Carrey) is the unknowing star of a 24-hour-a-day TV drama that has been aired live around the world for nearly 30 years, since the day Truman was born. Everyone else in town, including Meryl...
...worked because Carrey performed self-scrutiny that amounted to a makeover. The Chiclet festival of his smile is often used to undercut an opponent or close the sale of a gag. Here, modified by a few watts, it is a beacon of innocence, vulnerability. Except for Mom and a couple of wives, has anyone before thought of the Carrey face as beautiful? In this film it surely is. That's star quality and craft in tandem, the gift of recapturing innocence even as the movie recaptures the ability of the best old Hollywood films to work as metaphor and magic...