Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...territories they are to take over. Last week the mood at headquarters was subdued, reflecting concern among senior staffers that the organization is ill prepared to transform itself from a revolutionary cadre into a working government. Palestinians wonder among themselves if they are really ready. "We thought of everything except ruling," muses a senior P.L.O. official in Jordan. "I tell my colleagues that we need a transition period to prepare ourselves for a ruling mentality...
Separation's true climax comes early, with the children of everyone Paul took in denouncing the parents, as if their charity were a deliberate affront to the younger generation. Here Guare hilariously captures the irate solipsism of overprivileged adolescence. After that, though, he has nowhere to go, except toward liberal piety, which does not suit his rare comic gift. Still, two good acts are rare these days. It's probably ungrateful to expect more...
...feminists believe that women are essentially different from men and good in their own, uniquely female ways. If one more conservative group tries to tell me what a "feminist" is by categorizing and generalizing, I am going to sic Camille Paglia on them. There is no one "evil feminist," except perhaps, as the Peninsula staff would have you believe, any "evil woman with a brain...
...wouldn't really make a difference to me, except that the only excitement college football yearly generates throughout December concerns arguments about the merits of polls, pollees, and how big of a blowout the supposed "national championship" game is going...
...part with comic grime; his voice is so expertly characterized we can almost see the phlegm in his throat. The male chorus is picturesque and in one scene, becomes a topnotch a cappella and physical comedy troupe. This is not a women's play; the female chorus does little except hum along in the back ground. The orchestra, conducted by Gilbert Rose, is powerful without intruding upon the action onstage...