Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school, it wasn't that much of a deal except to those of us from Kentucky," Dickerson added. "I think if UMass would have been in it, it would have been a bigger deal. But since Kentucky beat UMass, only the die-hard Kentucky fans, I think, cared anything about the game...
...Because Weinstein had asked LaSane about himself and his family, police quickly had their suspect, the son of a county probation-department employee. "Our impression was that she was very aware she was leaving something behind," says Carluccio. He will not comment on LaSane's side of the conversation except to say, "When you hear the tape, it will raise profound questions about what is happening in our world with juveniles and our society. It goes beyond materialism...
...vigorous 51, the prodigal has returned, older but wiser. "It was time for me to come back to the U.S. in my prime, or at least my majority," he says. "I find myself rediscovering all the love I had for music in the beginning, except that now I have experience as well." He is bursting with ideas, including plans to replace the orchestra's annual June festival with a more adventurous celebration of American music. He is also renotating and recording some of Aaron Copland's thorny early works, as well as continuing work on a major orchestral composition...
...died. In 1990, during a visit to the memorial, Toni, who now works for naval procurement, was searching for the names of friends who had died in Vietnam. "I just flipped back to the Tonis, and the directory had my name. They had my rank and service right, except that I was alive. I showed my wife, and we didn't believe it at first. But then we located my name on the wall too [on panel 7W, line 121]. We just stood there embracing...
Upon all these folks, writer-director David O. Russell turns a bland, almost anthropological eye. Nothing surprises him and nothing outrages him, except for bed-and-breakfast lodgings, about which, at last, his movie tells the terrible truth. Usually when a Quentin Tarantino or an Oliver Stone sets out to penetrate the heart of American darkness, we sooner or later end up in hysteria and bloodshed. Russell, a much less antsy operative, practices a kind of Post-it Modernism, jotting quick notes on our secret lives and moving on. But make no mistake, he is a dangerous subversive, capable...