Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That is, nobody except for Barbara Haber, curator of books for the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College...
...ready to cave in, the tobacco giants call the agreement a lot of huffing and puffing and a desperate ploy by Liggett boss Bennett LeBow to cut his losses and possibly force another cigarette maker to buy him out. Liggett's deal is transferable to any acquiring tobacco company except Philip Morris. "The only ones who potentially benefit from LeBow's latest shenanigans are plaintiffs' lawyers," said a joint statement from the four major cigarette makers (Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson Tobacco and Lorillard), who account for 98% of U.S. tobacco sales. Through the first nine months...
...when the Hebron agreement was finally signed after four months of excruciating bargaining, the Israeli Prime Minister was still not a winner. Palestinians came away convinced that Netanyahu would never yield anything to them except under extreme duress. Many Israelis wondered what real security advantage all the tension and ill will had gained them. What the rest of the world regarded as a significant breakthrough for peace ranked as total betrayal to Jewish settlers and hard-line nationalists. At bottom, both his Palestinian foes and his right-wing faithful suspected the Prime Minister of terminal insincerity...
...lushness, the grittiness, the obtrusive weirdness of American cultural vernaculars. Though by the end of the '50s, laden with celebrity, he had become the man for younger artists to beat, it is impossible to imagine Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and some of the younger Pop artists developing their visions except in response to his, or to disentangle their revolt against his gestural, richly inflected touch from their homage...
...Joey Lauren Adams), also a comix artist, and falls into obsession. The problem is, she?s a lesbian. Well, nobody?s perfect. And, indeed, she?s not perfectly gay, for eventually she succumbs to Holden?s passion. This makes him feel terrific?the superstud who has conquered the unconquerable. Except that Banky?who has some homoerotic issues of his own to sort out?discovers otherwise. Alyssa has had male lovers in the past. This devastates Holden and wrecks both relationships. "It?s a sad and fiercely told story," notes Schickel. "Smith and his actors catch the stunned manner...