Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sound effects. Each time a new couple arrives, they are presaged by the glow of their headlights; then their silhouettes are thrown up, vastly enlarged, against the screen that marks the front door, creating an effect both menacing and inherently comical. The second act begins with no sound except that of Ken chewing and swallowing his dinner: magnified to such a volume that it reverberates through the theater, ironically underscoring Ken's loss of hearing...
Results are what happened. All the seniors except goaltender Shana Barghouti ended their careers by scoring goals, and Harvard controlled the draws and the ground balls, meaning that UNH (4-9) was almost never on offense...
...Except that "liberation" had its own constraints. Now we are judged on how "liberated" we are. How well are we rectifying the past status of women? The fact of the matter is that in doing so, we must restrict our lives according to stereotypes, just as we did before. The only difference is that now we have to reject all activities characterized as womanly: waxing our eyebrows, wearing heels, enjoying going to the hairdresser, giggling amongst ourselves, to name...
...Jewish neighborhoods" are becoming largely a thing of the past in many American cities, except for the Hasidic and Orthodox enclaves which are geographically bound by the walking distance to a synagogue. Propinquity among Jews is no longer found in college, professional school, or the work-place as much as it was in the days of religious exclusion, when ambitious Jews had to congregate in those few institutions that were open to them. And while it used to be virtually unthinkable for a Jew--even a secular Jew--to marry a non-Jew, today, such parental pressure (and the resulting...
They came humbly and quietly last week in wheelchairs and with leader dogs and a sign-language interpreter, hopeful paraplegic old men, and vigorous middle-age people except for their weakened limbs and dimmed eyes, and glowing youngsters with silence in their ears...