Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time is ripe to dump on Cirque du Soleil. This Montreal-based troupe has been an item of import chic since 1987, when it began touring the U.S. with a show called Le Cirque Reinvente. The Cirque style--circus acts (no animals, just humans) with the gloss of stage magic and a mysterioso musical score--is no longer an automatic astonishment; form has congealed into formula. Putting one of its extravaganzas, Mystere, in a Las Vegas casino and planning new shows in Vegas and Walt Disney World are moves that rob Cirque of its old street-theater purity. Then there...
...example, he cited a $300, 150-minute phone call to the Phillipines--a line item he termed "suspicious...
...been Newt Gingrich's valedictory, the week in which the first Republican House in 40 years could count its accomplishments before returning home to face the voters. As he sat last Thursday afternoon on the sun-washed balcony of his Capitol suite, the Speaker ticked them off: the line-item veto, a sweeping telecommunications law, a crackdown on illegal immigration, an expansion of health insurance, welfare reform, even a savings of $500,000 by ending daily ice deliveries to congressional offices. Then, in Gingrich fashion, he reached back--quite a reach--for a historical analogy. "You could make a pretty...
Eighty-five seniors submitted nominating petitions and five-item resumes yesterday to enter next week's class marshal elections, according to officials in the office of Diane Jellis, the associate director of classes and reunions...
...graduate Department of Mathematics last year, made a very passionate argument against recent legislation which would make English the official language of the United States. As the author himself argues, this legislation simply requires "conducting government business in English." However, Mr. Melikian argues that this legislation is "but one item in a hidden agenda by Anglo supremacist groups to annihilate the cultural identity of various ethnic groups that comprise American society...