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Word: gravely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Please do not misunderstand. I am not suggesting that Clinton should move to the right; that would be a grave mistake. President Truman made the same mistake when he ordered the creation of the loyalty program under which all Federal employees were subject to investigation. Trying to appease the growing right-wing clamor over Communists in government, he only made matters worse...

Author: By Ben Tahriri, | Title: Clinton Can't Give Up Hope | 3/14/1995 | See Source »

...BEGINS WITH A ship's bell clanging peacefully in the night. Suddenly there is the shuddering impact of steel meeting solid, razor-sharp ice. Then the music emerges as if from a watery grave, half heard and half perceived, a stately, contemplative hymn solemnly intoned by a string sextet. A brass choir picks up fragments of the tune, while a boys' chorus adds a heavenly descant of Kyrie Eleison. From time to time, scraps of sound emerge from the wreckage-buckling bulkheads, rushing water, disembodied voices of the survivors, alarm horns honking futilely across the cold North Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAISING THE TITANIC | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

Those who know and work with McArthur agree.Timken Professor of Business Administration HugoE. R. Uyterhoeven attributes to the dean a "workethic that would drive most other human beings tothe grave...

Author: By Susan A. Chen, | Title: B-School Dean Leaves His Mark | 3/11/1995 | See Source »

Sony Janus. 57 JFK St., Harvard Square. 661-3737. On Thurs., March 9. "Shallow Grave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not at Harvard | 3/9/1995 | See Source »

...Shallow Grave" seeks to describe greed, but contains no real character analysis, and no profound insights into why ordinary people would behave like animals in the pursuit of a suitcase full of money. Boyle's final shot is haunted by the maniacal laughter of a flatmate as blood runs over the image of Queen Elizabeth's face on a bank note. It makes the viewer wonder if "Shallow Grave's" gory pandemonium is a big, shallow joke...

Author: By Marco M. Spino, | Title: Scottish Thriller Isn't Even Six Feet Deep | 3/2/1995 | See Source »

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