Word: gately
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jury President Frances Ford Coppolla, who knows a thing or two about over-extended budgets, blamed Wall Street investors for the "corporate studio mentality" that brought cookie-cutter creativity to the industry following a string of Hollywood financial disasters. He traced the trend back to the megabomb "Heaven's Gate." Said Coppolla: "They used that film as an excuse to take over. These are the people who brought you the Big Mac, and in the last twelve years I can't think of a classic they've made." Coppolla's sideswipe struck some as ironic, since he heads the judging...
Chiseled over the Dexter Gate to Harvard Yard on Mass. Ave. is a surprising inscription. On the street side, the inscription reads "Enter to Grow in Wisdom"--nothing terribly shocking for a University. But the message written on the Yard side of the gate betrays its age: "Depart to Serve Better Thy Country and Thy Kind." These words designate the gate a relic, a memento from a time that has surely left us behind. The inscription, composed by Harvard President Charles William Eliot, class of 1893, elegantly expresses a concept of the university that seems archaic and foreign these days...
...diligent reporters, the chair of "Aqua-Leisure Inc." circumvented federal campaign finance restrictions on corporate donations by distributing $40,000 in cash to employees, and then having each of them donate $1,000 apiece to Dole. As the Federal Election Commission (FEC) starts to investigate, whispers of "Dole-gate" stir the press corps...
...hold the view that terrorism is innate to Palestinian character or society. Prof. Dershowitz links "the legitimization of terrorism" to the "legitimization of the legitimization of the PLO by the world community." The implication is that the PLO, and by extension, we presume, Palestinians, are the barbarians at the gate, to be held back, as in the past, through force. To turn a blind eye, however, to the misery that the state of Israel has inflicted, and has continued to inflict, on the Palestinian population is to ignore the real cause of terrorism...
...suffering great and small. Dozens of mourners congregate here each day, and like children at a wishing well, they cannot resist leaving tokens behind. Nudged into the 8-ft.-high grid are tin medallions of the Virgin Mary, polyester roses, a phone card with a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge, an Afro pick, a flowered scarf, a globe key chain, poems and prayers on scraps of paper, crucifixes made from twigs and, in this Easter season, scores of green palm fronds carried straight from the city's churches. One person took off his tennis shoes, scribbled a note...