Word: longingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...long time the city of Dallas has been like Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront. It wants to be a contender, a world-class city. It already has a few of the prerequisites - a skyline, an NFL franchise and a serious traffic problem. But until you have the full panoply of major cultural venues, you're Palookaville...
...fund it. It wasn't until 1984 that the first element was completed, the Dallas Museum of Art, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes. Five more years went by before the debut of the Meyerson Symphony Center, a sweeping exercise in creamy culture-luxe by I.M. Pei. Then a long pause until the vaulted chambers of Renzo Piano's magnificent Nasher Sculpture Center opened...
...because I didn't have enough room in me to finish it. And, you know, regular exercise, but nothing insane. I didn't go on a cleanse or a diet after, and maybe my cholesterol is 30,000 or whatever, but this is food I feel good eating as long as I don't eat too much...
...right to appear on television. "I am uneasy about his appearance, accepting [the] argument that he might well come over as just another politician rather than a fascist fanatic, but I think to deny him the right to speak on television would be infinitely worse in the long run," wrote media commentator Roy Greenslade in the Evening Standard. "However distasteful it is to put up with homophobic journalists and racist politicians, censorship does not remove prejudice...
...Vienna move may be read as Iran flexing its muscle with respect to a deal that the Obama Administration badly needs - international support for harsher sanctions remains limited as long as Iran is ready to offer some form of cooperation. But in doing so while isolating the most hard-line among the Western powers, Tehran may be offering concessions that it's willing to give, while enjoying a personal poke at Sarkozy...