Word: length
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...probably closer to the historical truth), as a wandering thug who, when he isn't dealing faro or looking for a gold strike, occasionally makes a living as a peace officer not entirely immune to corruption. What you shouldn't do -- especially at 3 hours and 15 minutes, a length that implicitly promises epic grandeur -- is turn his story into a solemn biopic, grinding relentlessly, without selectivity or point of view, through a rootless and episodic life from adolescence...
...contention was that the program was tolong, [and the elimination was] designed to reducethe length," Epps said. "It lost the focus of theday...
...High Court kept church and state at arm's length by ruling that New York state could not fund a special public school district for disabled children of Hasidic Jews. The justices voted 6-3 against the Kiryas Joel public school district, created to take care of the needs of about 220 children too handicapped to go to private religious schools. Their parents had opposed sending them to nearby public schools that of course, provided no Hasidic curriculum. While the Constitution allows some room to accommodate religious needs, Justice David Souter said the New York plan "crosses the line...
...Union in New York City. After illustrating several children's books in the 1970s, he produced comic strips for the Village Voice in New York. In 1981 he started Washingtoon in the Voice and the Washington Post, which eventually syndicated the strip nationally. He has since published two book-length collections of Washingtoon and has seen it become the basis for a cable-TV series in the 1980s...
Clinton began his morning jog wearing a radically modest pair of gray knee-length shorts, thus addressing the national fixation on the presidential gams. Clinton has been criticized, and ridiculed, since campaign days for wearing "unpresidential" nylon jogging shorts that some believe revealed too much of his pale, large legs...