Word: insists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...length of the marriage. Then there are sexual provisions. One contract might specify that the husband can fool around only when he is out of town. Some agreements say the husband or wife gets a night or two out each week with no questions asked, and many contracts insist that the bride and groom detail their sexual life histories before the wedding...
...help one recognize the true achievement of the avant-garde alternative. The triumph of the avant- garde over the pompiers has been so complete that one can now look at the losers with calm interest and historical understanding. This is not a matter of camp revival, as some moralists insist, but of real history as against pious polemic...
Bread pudding. That's about as exotic as Appleton, Wis. This lack of sophistication may be why some historians insist that the great Houdini was born in Budapest. Still Houdini always said he was born in Appleton, observes Outagamie Museum Curator Mary Mergy, and that's what she likes to believe. "It adds," she says, "a little zest to life...
They look like Conan's long-lost cousins and even call themselves "the Barbarian Brothers," but David and Peter Paul insist any similarities with other he-men are just slickery skin-deep. "The difference between us and the Stallone-Schwarzenegger muscle-and-machine-gun types is our vulnerability," says Peter. "We are real positive about ourselves. We believe in order to do the impossible, you must see the invisible." Right. But even so, the identical hunks should be quite visible in coming months. Having already done bit flexing in D.C. Cab and The Flamingo Kid, the Pauls are back from...
...view of most Democrats, the President blatantly flouted these provisions. While the law does not define "timely fashion," the Democrats insist, that phrase cannot be stretched to cover a period as long as the 18 months of secret negotiations with the Iranians. Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia contends that the permitted delay "might be 18 hours, but not 18 months." Anyway, the Democrats claim, Section 501 demands that prior notice be given at least to the eight senior leaders no matter what. Says Congressman Wright: "The law is not ambiguous." Even some Republicans agreed. Said Indiana...