Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long ago, skating meets had some of the intimate charm of horse trials or country fairs. Even today, no skater -- except one in the throes of a postdefeat pout -- is too big to sign autographs, accept a stuffed teddy bear or stop and chat with a thigh-high champion of tomorrow. Most practice sessions are like high school afternoon scrimmages: come along and stay behind afterward to hear from the source what it feels like to sail along the wind in a grand spread eagle. The end of all that may have begun last week...
...briskly by Margaret Gibson, playing Mrs. Prentice, the cast adheres strictly to the whimsical spirit of Orton's text. The set (designed by Derek McLane) and costumes (by Catherine Zuber) reinforce the historical context of the play. Under the direction of David Wheeler, the A.R.T. production is seamless, except for a few chaotic moments when the stage order unnecessarily falls apart. Overall, however, the play is well excecuted...
...wishes of the O'Neill family, all print media were kept outside in the cold except for one reporter each from The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Associated Press, and the Cambridge Chronicle...
...That's it. People say women have special problems. Well, men have special problems. I'm very tall. That's a special problem." Here Crichton is arguing, as his book does, against any "special protection" for women. "Equality is clear. No favoritism is clear. If you say, 'No favoritism except here,' then it's not clear. I think everybody understands equal. It's relatively easy to measure, as in exactly how far we've gotten and exactly how far we have to go. Protectionism is not clear. It's possible to imagine there's something even anti-American...
...this opening and expanding of new frontiers leaves bachelor Mandel with little time for cocooning. "There are no living things in my apartment except for a couple of spiders," he admits. However, he manages to keep up with his wide network of friends both electronically and in person. He even takes a laptop with him whenever he returns to Hawaii, where he was reared. That way, he can surf the electronic waves whenever he's not shooting the tubes off Oahu...