Word: excepts
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...none of my plays," he protested. "I can describe none of them, except to say: That is what happened. That is what they said. That is what they did." The meaning of his plays was the Deep Throat that Pinter died without divulging. But maybe he was reluctant to say what what his plays "meant" or what the figures in them symbolized because he didn't know - that he was not so much their author as their midwife, and that to explain the process, to himself or others, would rob him of the freedom of encountering them and putting them...
...foreign policy, which he saw as criminal; and he puckishly offered his services as George W. Bush's speechwriter, with this as an audition text for the President: "My God is good. Bin Laden's God is bad. His is a bad God. Saddam's God was bad except he didn't have one. He was a barbarian. We are not barbarians." Though the cancer had made his voice weak and raspy, Pinter had not forgotten the lessons of his years in repertory; the consummate actor delivered his screed with understated power...
...exceedingly bloody year, 1,200 Americans had died in Vietnam. So people had bigger things on their minds in October when Apollo 7 - the first of the three-man Apollo ships - had orbited the Earth. And people might have been equally indifferent in December when Apollo 8 went aloft - except that Apollo 8 would be traveling a little farther than Earth orbit. (Read TIME's Top 10 Scientific Discoveries...
...Fleming would soon become the MGM director. In 1971, for an oral history project at Columbia University, the producer Pandro S. Berman, who joined MGM in 1940, was asked whether the reputations of MGM's big directors should really have gone on to the producers. 'I would say [so] except in the case of one man ... Victor Fleming was such a powerful man and so strong that he wouldn't do anything until it was his way,' said Berman...
...school. Two weeks ago, Harvard Medical School and FAS administrators asked their departments to plan for 10 percent budget cuts in light of the deteriorating financial situation. And last week, the Harvard Kennedy School announced it would freeze salaries and slow or stop faculty and staff hiring except in cases of "extremely high strategic priority...