Word: fall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...better to go to a class you're actually interested in than to go to one whose professor was featured on "The Simpsons," Aftandilian said, referring to Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen J. Gould, who was featured in an episode of the cartoon last fall...
...years since the dolphin decision, the major environmental organizations have girded themselves for a showdown with free traders. Today most groups employ staff who work on nothing else. Last fall environmentalists banded together in opposition to President Clinton's request for renewal of fast-track trading authority. The Sierra Club took out radio ads, and the head of the National Wildlife Federation testified against it before Congress three times. They...
...world over, Pol Pot inspired affection among the countryfolk who harbored him for nearly 20 years. "The people found him very kind--I mean the poor people," said Mit Sim, head of Pol Pot's bodyguards in northwestern Cambodia until 1994. During a visit to the area last fall, Sim led the way uphill to the remains of Pol Pot's house and pointed out a large rock at the edge of a nearby cliff. "This is where he would come and sit in the evening," said Sim. "When he was depressed he would call me, and I would come...
...they do, and Barnaby mourns them. One of his favorites, Mrs. Alford, goes suddenly, and relatives show Barnaby the quilt with a Planet Earth design that she had hastily finished. He sees a depiction "clumsily cobbled together, overlapping and crowded and likely to fall into pieces at any moment." That is a pretty good description of the world in Tyler's fiction, a fragile place sustained by hope and love...
When Chase stumbles upon the body of Ella Fisher, a black dean, dead from an apparent fall, she's sure that the wrong kind of invisible hand is at work. She investigates the victim's death with two weapons: an analytical mind and an unabashed use of her feminine wiles. Flattering and flirting, she makes her way through the suspects: the playboy university president who promoted Fisher from the secretarial ranks, allegedly thanks to her talents between the sheets; a slimy comptroller with a repertoire of bilingual--but still awful--come-ons (as in, "You're looking recherche this evening...