Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...continues after the Christmas Eve party with Dr. Drosselmeyer's enchanted spell on the nutcracker. Everyone in the house has gone to sleep except Clara. She steals back into the living room and soon a battle begins between the life-size Nutcracker and the Mouse-King. Many surprises and creative additions strengthen this central Battle Scene. Mice jump from the stage out into the audience. A dramatic pause after the death of the Mouse-King adds drama and a touch of sorrow, followed by the comic relief of Red Cross arm-banded mice attempting CPR and carrying him away...
...that I am a famous writer, director and producer of a smash-hit rock opera, now that I am practically blind from the flashbulbs of the paparazzi, now that I cannot leave my room except when disguised as a tree or a piece of cheese, I find that my adoring public has many questions for me. Like, "What went on behind the scenes of Jurassic Park: The Rock Opera'? Was there laughter? Tears? Hopes? Fears? Smiles? Sighs? Blackened? Eyes?" Rest assured, my friends, that there was all that and more. For example...
...Harvard Advocate, Fall 1993, Vol. CXXVIII, No. 1: Cinque Henderson '94 writes the magazine's "Notes from 21 South Street" on recent Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. He confesses, "...I collect Toni in every form available: pictures, posters, articles, essays. We've got signed first editions of all her novels except the expensive ones. We have her on tape--video and audio. We have copies of her only published short story, her only published poem. And we hang her all around the house." And if Cinque liked the President, the secret service would be going through his trash right...
...accomplished everything I've set out to do here, except get to a bowl game," Murphy said. "Emotionally, I feel like one of the seniors and now I've graduated...
...candor may stem from desperation. There are chronic food shortages (except in tourist hotels) and a virtual absence of such necessities as toilet paper and toothpaste. The capital's cityscape is bleak. "Havana is absolutely empty at night. There are no cars, no lights and no people on the streets, except for prostitutes," McGeary says. Yet most Cubans refuse to lose hope. Their vitality is what adds so much intrigue to the unfolding saga of the western hemisphere's last remaining Communist outpost...