Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gordimer says the only opinion of her writing that has ever really mattered is her own. She says she never considered any career other than writing, except a brief flirtation with ballet dancing at the age of four...
...admitting that "what you want is what you get at McDonald's today." While the message doesn't present a problem, the means of communication do. All of the actors utilize an extreme dialect and mode of speaking that no person I know, white or black, has ever used except in jest...
...time Louis Auchincloss came along to write such Jamesian, Whartonian novels of manners as The Rector of Justin and The Great World and Timothy Colt, the Society of Mrs. Astor's ballroom no longer meant much, except to itself. The European aristocracy that it had tried to emulate was moribund and more impoverished than ever, and in the U.S. there were simply too many circles of the rich and self-pleased -- in the oil and entertainment industries, in politics, in the media business, among wealthy alumni of Midwestern cow colleges, lately in the computer industry -- for any one social elite...
...read in The Crimson before coming here that it was a longstanding tradition for groups to give free tickets to their events to Holworthy residents in return for having advertisements on banners hung out their windows. The banner my entry had made the previous night didn't advertise anything except ourselves, and I thought that perhaps that was the reason she wanted it down...
...whole world was watching, (except those lucky few who may have been tuned into an England league soccer match) she needed a perfect ten to secure the victory, and she did it. America laughed, they cried and claimed they were better than the Russians...