Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Leverett Towers are topped with rows of white triangular shapes, which some call kites and others insist are golf tees. No one seems to know their purpose--one Leverett House custodian recently suggested they were only for decoration...
...remark is not only rough, it's wrong. Nancy Reagan's gelid smile and fixed gaze are foreign to Robinson, who really sparkles when she meets people. She has a thrilling, throaty laugh, but quips are not her style. Her brothers and old friends insist that she can top tall stories with the best of them -- and that in a land where the gab is the biggest gift of all. Around a dinner table, she and her husband often talk vehemently and at once, taking different verbal paths to the same end -- rather like characters in an opera...
...overly finicky about staying within the confines of the law. He denies suggesting that Dallas police cordon off sections of minority neighborhoods and conduct house-to-house searches for drugs and weapons, an idea that would seem prohibited by constitutional rules on searches and seizures. But reliable journalists insist that he did advocate such a sweep, and more than once. Moreover, it is of a piece with his openly stated belief that a war on drugs should be fought as a genuine, literal war. He has at various times suggested blowing up drug-carrying ships and bombing heroin producers...
Conservative theologian Joyce A. Little of Houston's University of St. Thomas interprets feminism as one aspect of an insidious cultural attack against all traditional restraints and beliefs in favor of asserting individual desires. Little wants the American bishops to draw the line and insist that "the personal beliefs of priests, religious or laity which run contrary to the public faith of the church will not be tolerated in liturgy or instruction on Catholic doctrine." She recognizes that such a crackdown would cause "extraordinary public fragmentation of the Catholic community." However, the U.S. hierarchy's current policy of benign inaction...
...cable comedy channel. The anchor will be Saturday Night Live's Al Franken. Comedy Central plans to invite guest analysts ranging from Republican strategist Roger Ailes to gonzo journalist Hunter Thompson, as well as the candidates themselves. Entertainment is clearly the channel's first objective, but the producers insist their coverage will be informative too. "The hope is that by providing facts in this more appealing way, we will be seducing more people into this process," says Mary Salter, vice president for current programs and production...