Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Youngman onstage was for Scorsese's Mafia in 1990's "GoodFellas." At 85, the machine gun was still going strong. For his last birthday, Youngman gathered some reporters for a reading of his "Last Will and Testament": "To my nephew Irving, who still keeps asking me to mention him in my will: 'Hello, Irving!'" The one-liner will never be the same...
...hear my voice mixing with those around me, climbing in volume with the crowd in what sounds vaguely like a communal religious ceremony. It sounds that way, at least, if you don't pay careful attention to what's being said. Because while "God" and "Jesus" do get a mention here and there, prayer doesn't seem the best way to characterize the spirit in which all that religious vocabulary is being used. A better explanation is that a great many members of the gathered mass are slinging their most forceful, most venomous curses at television sets...
...House aide Sidney Blumenthal, who was called before the special prosecutor's 23-member grand jury Tuesday -- but fought against appearing right down to the last minute. "This subpoena is an assault on the First Amendment," Blumenthal, a former journalist, said Monday night. "I'm incensed, outraged." Not to mention peeved. A petulant Jo Marsh, Blumenthal's attorney, complained that Starr's people had dragged them down to the courthouse, only to keep them cooling their heels while they decided when her client would testify...
...suits and start poking around the wreck. And the standard scare scenes start occurring on a more or less predictable schedule--leaks, explosions, monsters popping out of the dark depths--with a more or less predictable effect on the health, mental and physical, of the intruders, not to mention the quality of the dialogue, which deteriorates largely to murmured suspicions and warning shouts...
There are some rights so deep and protections so inalienable that we don't mention them, and neither did the Founding Fathers. If pressed, I would have guessed that parent-child communications fall into that constitutional sweet spot, the Ninth Amendment, which acknowledges rights so sacred they don't need to be enumerated. But that's the lawyer in me reaching. Like almost every other parent in America, I simply took for granted--until I saw Marcia Lewis psychologically strip-searched last week on what she knows about the sex life of her daughter Monica Lewinsky--that the government could...