Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found, were the very qualities she had trouble conveying, which limited her to light comedies and, in later years, to playing starchy, irascible eccentrics. Hepburn was dogged for years by Dorothy Parker's famous put-down of her performance in the Broadway play The Lake: "Katharine Hepburn runs the gamut of emotion from A to B." If her parents, heirs to the Corning Glass fortune, had not bought her out of that flop and she had not secured the rights to The Philadelphia Story, she would not be summoning reporters to her house today...
...have a first obligation" to the people who elected me. "I want to run for President, but I can't." Fast-forward to last Wednesday evening, Feb. 12. The Governor delivers a brilliant political speech at Harvard, and the panting begins anew. In 45 minutes Cuomo runs the gamut from sounding like the liberal Harkin to the neoconservative Tsongas. There is "no free lunch," he says, aping Tsongas' hard-nosed view that resurrecting the economy will require a lot more than smoke and mirrors, a lot more than simply awarding the middle class a tax break at the expense...
These national transformations prompted a range of activity within the sprawling urban shantytowns surrounding the capital of Santiago. Often under the protection of the Catholic Church and with the help of international aid organizations, shantytown dwellers launched grassroots organizations. These groups ran the gamut from human rights groups to housing committees to productive workshops. The shantytowns became important nexuses of opposition in the national protests from 1983 to 1986. Youths erected burning barricades and pelted tanks and soldiers with stones. Women banged their pots to call for an end to military rule...
Some resistance remains: many newspapers are still reluctant to run more than one black comic strip an issue, even though black artists cover the same gamut of styles and story lines as their white counterparts. "You have to fight a certain amount of response that we already have a black strip," says Sarah Gillespie, director of comic art at United Feature Syndicate, which distributes Jump Start. But the favorable response to the breakthrough artists is having a ripple effect. Earlier this year, Gibson Greetings began marketing a line of cards featuring Armstrong's likable Joe and Marcy. Barbara Brandon...
...rooted in ancient Asian healing traditions. Others, like crystal healing and bioenergetics, were born in the New Age (i.e., rooted in the ether over California). Many alternative therapies assume that mind and body are subtly interlocked and influence each other powerfully. In terms of credibility, they run the gamut from the generally accepted -- acupuncture for pain relief; to the plausible -- inhaling eucalyptus to open the sinuses (aromatherapy); to the frankly bizarre -- having the middle of your right foot manipulated to improve your liver function (reflexology...