Word: figuredness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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For their part, the Kurdish delegates, who represented the four major Kurdish organizations, figured they were negotiating from strength. Not only has Saddam been weakened by his defeat in the gulf war, but, explains a European spokesman for the Kurdish Front in Paris, "this is the very first time that...
A great performer, for starters. More than Julia Roberts or Meryl Streep, Madonna is the modern movie star because she has created her own roles: boy toy, Marilyn Monroe avatar, Penthouse pinup, sly feminist, scandal magnet. With docile avidity, the world has eyed this procession of Madonnas, each one an...
In the interest of our readers' academic wellbeing, Reporters" Notebook and Required Reading do not appear in this reading period edition of News in Review. We figured you have enough required reading to do on your own, and we wouldn't want to spoil it.
I just figured that I would ride out the scandal like Lee Iacocca managed to survive his embarrassing little "Pinto" episode. Keep a low profile. Wear dark sunglasses around campus. It wasn't too difficult. I had a thesis to write.
As long as the cinema has told stories, it has plundered from print. More than half the movies that have won an Oscar for Best Picture have been based on novels or biographies. But the '70s saw the dominance of popular original scripts (Rocky, Star Wars, The Deer Hunter), and...