Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pensions are tied to salaries, it was effectively the same thing. That might have been no more elastic with the truth than other negative ads--except that Dole actually supported a measure that would have, for the first time in decades, reined in federal pensions, something Forbes omits to mention...
...crew, which included Serb overseers, froze in place and then left at once, he says. "We pretended that we had not seen anything," he explains, because Serb authorities "could have killed us for that." Even later, and among themselves, the men who were under forced labor carefully avoided mention of the sighting. "You never knew if one of the others would tell it to the Serbs," the engineer remarks. "We were all paralyzed by fear." But the witness insists, "It's a fact that they were burying people there." The multicolored clothes suggested dead civilians...
...Carolina's Jesse Helms, a bitter ideological foe, gets praised for being 'courtly.'" Never an accomplished orator, Bradley is scarcely more convincing a writer. "The book is outrageously padded with long lists that gobble up lines without clarifying issues," Elson says. "It's not enough for Bradley merely to mention the nation's polluted industrial rivers: he has to add a litany of nine, from the Ohio to the Penobscot. Time and again he offers trenchantly observed summaries of an American social problem--failing schools, for example, or popular fears of violent crime--that trail off into unhelpful cliches...
WHERE WOULD LATE 20TH CENtury pop culture be without Jane Austen, literature's first great chronicler of the young, the idle and the sardonic--not to mention the romantically addled? Without Austen's fine-boned fiction we might never have had an Ethan Hawke, a Whit Stillman or an NBC Thursday-night lineup...
...passion for Elizabeth (Jennifer Ehle), the novel's brilliant, voluble heroine. His eyes are piercing, and he cannot take them off her, in one scene ogling her from his bathroom window after languishing in a warm tub. Fortunately, despite one or two other such moments--not to mention an opening-credits sequence in which the camera pans over crinkled-up satin--this Pride and Prejudice never quite veers into Sidney Sheldon territory...