Word: fall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fall of 1985, my brother left our home in Winter Park, Fla., for Yale. We were all very proud, but the experience that was about to begin would only worsen my brother's esteem. In his two years at Yale, he encountered a harshness that took him in and spit him out in so many ways. My brother never graduated, and for the next 10 years he wandered from job to job and city to city without finding the security he was so desperately looking...
...Core lotteries. So what if they only have two semesters left, the offerings are scanty and the Warren Court was the only class they could fit into their busy schedules of theses, extracurriculars and fun? They can have all the fun they want in their ninth semester next fall...
Like millions of "leaf-peeper" tourists who descend on the region each fall, many students will spend the holiday weekend visiting rural New England...
...1980s. After chalking up Basquiat's success to the happenstance of being in the right trendy scene at the right time and the prevalence of the art world's "reverse racism" (whatever that means), the book seems to revel in the artist's self-destruction and subsequent "fall from grace." Blending descriptions of the decadence of the New York affluent with block quotes from people who claim to have been close to Basquiat, the biography at least succeeds in giving a reader a sense of the hypocricy and egoism that must have caused Basquiat such emotional turmoil...
Recalling that in an interview with CNN in May 1996 he had the "audacity to challenge conventional wisdom [by stating] that within two to three years Suharto will be gone," he attributed the ex-president's recent fall on rampant corruption, crony capitalism and on the flawed policies of the Indonesian government...