Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chess isn't exactly a rah-rah sport, but it was a lot of fun," Youseff said...
Kopit, however, isn't content with merely showing us the familiar Dr. Strangelove crew of zanies. He also makes intriguing suggestions about curiosity and the allure of the vision of the ultimate catastrophe. Foreman's eerie, often surreal staging captures the sense of this fatal desire...
...consumer question. In themarketplace, cable isn't as popular as VCRs," saysHall. However, he added that "now, we shouldinstead spend the money on things that would mostbenefit excellence in instruction...
...popular memory, the press brought down Richard Nixon. This isn't true, though the press in a moment of hubris once thought so and later paid for its arrogance in public disapproval. In Watergate's early days the story was kept alive mainly by the valiant reporting of the Washington Post. But Nixon was finally toppled by two institutions more powerful than the press -- Judge John Sirica's federal court and Senator Sam Ervin's Senate committee...
...opinion, Marty, 58, a Lutheran clergyman, is generally acknowledged to be the most influential living interpreter of religion in the U.S. Leander Keck, dean of the Divinity School at Yale, observes that Marty is not only a noteworthy religion scholar but a "front-rank popularizer . . . In this country there isn't anyone comparable." Other academic commentators, says Keck, lack Marty's breadth of information, polish and "enormous energy...