Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...predictable and thin, the show is enlivened by grisly good humor. In one episode, two burglar brothers kill an old lady (Imogene Coca) while ransacking her home, but not before she bites one on the hand. The swollen wound soon takes the shape of the dead woman's face, which won't shut up. "It's like in one of them Wolfman movies," cries the cursed fellow. Replies his dim-witted brother: "What, an old lady bites you, and you turn into another old lady?" This weekend Soupy Sales plays a traveling salesman who, after wrecking his car, spends...
...struggle to find a compromise somewhere in the middle ground. For beneath its endlessly diverting surface, Eco's novel constitutes a litmus test for ways of looking at history and the world. Casaubon, the narrator, recalls himself as a younger man, when he was willing to take facts at face value, to be what he calls incredulous. He recognizes and scorns another manner of thinking: "If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity." But then, as a graduate student...
...warmup for some of the tough players she will face in Philly, deLone played a practice match last week against Ros Fairbank, the 40th-seeded professional player in the world. Fairbank took the first two sets, 6-1, 7-6 (7-3), but deLone was up, 3-1, in the third when Fairbank had to leave...
...bankers will not face bankruptcy," Larrainsaid. "The problem is not the survival of thefinancial community, but rather the survival ofLatin America...
...enough that someone, with something important to tell, might face demotion or unemployment if the "something" is about his or her department. The deterrent is multiplied when the whistleblower fears criminal charges...