Word: forthings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doing it worth so much travail? This now paranoid critic thinks so. Adair's translation is an astounding Anglicization of Francophonic mania, a daunting triumph of will pushing its way through imposing roadblocks to a magical country, an absurdist nirvana, of humor, pathos and loss. Go forth to your local bookstall or library, pay $24 for or borrow a copy of A Void, and savor it slowly. But stay wary and vigilant, and mind your ps and qs, to say nothing at all about your ... Aaiioouugh...
...their favorite aspects: a requirement that any future tax increases would have to be approved by a three-fifths majority in both houses. In the Speaker's office, under an ornate chandelier and the inflatable toy Tyrannosaurus rex with an American flag in its claw, Gingrich held forth on the subject of unity. But the only way he eventually got it was by promising the freshmen an amendment of their own on the tax issue...
Edward Zwick, the director, and Susan Shilliday and Bill Wittliff, the screenwriters, are under the impression that they are bringing forth a tragic epic, not a silly melodrama, and therefore much blood must be spilled before whoever is left standing at the end is granted peace and wisdom. That most of the dying results from a bootlegging operation Tristan starts up during Prohibition tends to short-circuit whatever impulses toward terror and pity we might still have. Running hooch in from Canada is not an occupation we usually associate with profound drama, especially when it is centered on a figure...
...intellectual property rights, President Clinton plans to impose new tariffs on about $1 billion worth of Chinese imports. On Saturday, U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor will release a list of Chinese goods to be targeted, White House officials say. The hard-hitting action follows months of acrimonious back-and-forth on the rampant piracy of U.S. computer software, motion pictures, videos, sound recordings and periodicals in China -- something U.S. businesses say costs them hundreds of millions of dollars in fees annually. TIME Washington correspondent Adam Zagorin says "the U.S. move is a ratcheting up of American pressure -- in effect...
Picture yourself sitting on a futon staring out at one of those interminably gray Cambridge days and pondering what will happen to you when you're spewed forth from the hallowed halls of Harvard into the real world. This is the type of self-induced depressive state that you have to be in to cosmically align yourself with British pop group London Suede's new album, Dog Man Star...