Word: excepts
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday has been a nationally-celebrated holiday since 1986 and is currently observed in every state except New Hampshire
American patriots will be glad to know that our officers-in-training at West Point are still strong. Well, make the except for our patriotic Harvard wrestling fans, who had to watch the Crimson fall to heavily favored Army, 22-13, on Saturday. This loss, however, was softened by Harvard's 39-9 demolition of Boston College earlier...
Nothing quickens publishers' pulses more than a celebrity tell-all--except a posthumous celebrity tell-all. The autobiography of Lucille Ball, recently discovered among her publicist's papers, is expected to go for at least seven figures at auction this month...
...this heavy breathing obscures the fact that except for the color of its stars, Exhale is fairly standard Hollywood pap--sort of Steel Magnolias in black face. Its biggest virtue is that there is not a struggling welfare mama, sassy street-corner "ho" or domineering matriarch in sight. Indeed for all the predictable carping from black men about the supposed bashing of their sex in Exhale, it is middle-class black women who take the real beating. Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine and Lela Rochon play to a new black female stereotype that is in some ways more damaging...
...comment on his personal dilemma. But The Moor's Last Sigh--Rushdie's first novel since The Satanic Verses--should not be taken only, or even principally, as veiled autobiography. It is much too teeming and turbulent, too crammed with history and dreams, to fit into any imaginable category, except that of the magically comic...