Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drab, traditional world, where the Catholic Church is the final arbiter of any question, but where religious allegiance must be downplayed to avoid the attention of the Protestant authorities, who are especially vigilant in the years following World War II in which the book is set. Old grudges are fresh in this society, and memories of the not-so-distant rebellions are almost more vivid than the events of daily life...
...others call it a nightmare. For me, this onstage persona has been my other life for the past 2 1/2 years. Several times a month I'm out there with my fresh-from-the-headlines political jokes, trying to become the Mort Sahl of the '90s. The New York Observer described one of my early performances: "He holds the microphone like a dead fish." Trust me, I've grown as an artist. I have a monthly gig, along with four other talented baby-boomer comics, at the Gotham Comedy Club in Manhattan. The Washington Post dubbed our performance LAUGH RIOT...
...already be happening. More than half of Asian Americans under 34 marry outside their race (Liu is among them), and as he notes in the book's concluding essay, the boom in interracial marriage offers some fresh promise for America's agonized debate on race. Writes Liu: "Something new is emerging from the torrent." This book makes one hope Liu will be there to chronicle...
...likely to crash during installation if hardware configuration occurs after booting up the newly installed operating system rather than before. Likewise, your participation--mostly answering yes to a series of prompts--is required for only the first 10 minutes or so of the 40-minute process. Go get some fresh...
...obscurity and fingered Matthew Grech, 28, a semiconductor analyst, to run its faltering, $2 billion Select Electronics mutual fund. Bull-market madness? Perhaps. But if it is, Fidelity is not alone. With record amounts of capital flowing in ($30 billion just last month), mutual-fund firms are hunting for fresh talent in novel places--not quite kindergarten, but not very far removed from school...