Word: latters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...splits her personality neatly between a shudderingly silly and endearing pre-adolescent 1980s chick in the former role ("Wow! She's, like, the cutest thing since Safari-Style Barbie!" confides the love-struck Pericles to the audience) and the more serious one of the frightened virgin Marina in the latter...
...abhorrence for-or fascination with--Native Americans. For most of the colonists, the Archbuilders peaceful, contemplative lifestyle and enchantment and play with the English language make them no more than stupid vagabonds. For the rest, like Clement, these same attributes deserve admiration and scrutiny and elicit awe. Although the latter is far more noble than the former, both are ultimately essentializing and patronizing pictures of an "other culture." It is only Pella that can sort through such simplifications and make fair value judgements about individual Archbuilders, as her inquisition at the end regarding a crime an Archbuilder was accused...
...Laughs wildly.] The latter...
...about the decision not to institute a dress-code. "We want people to be as comfortable wearing jeans and a T-shirt as they are in a tuxedo," she explains. At the same time, she acknowledges that Rialto's regulars are more likely to be dressed in the latter than the former. "The average age of the clientele is late forties," Kate estimates. On the other hand, "a lot of guys from the Hasty Pudding" come in from time to time...
...York City, said he hiked eight hours till he stumbled across a local TV crew doing a story on the abductions. Both the Colombian government and the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia were nonplussed: the former claimed Fiore had been released to deliver a message to Washington; the latter declared Fiore was freed as a "sign of goodwill" after it had determined that the captives were not spies. Fiore, who described his treatment by the guerrillas as "lots of food, no violence," says he escaped when his captors fell asleep. The four Americans were looking for the rare Cundinamarca...