Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into a classy alternative stage presence. Half as well known as Baez or Patty Larkin, The Nields were good enough to accidentally give the rest of the concert a sober, if triumphant, denouement feel. Patty Larkin was glaringly down-to-earth by contrast, singing masterful songs that nonetheless seemed a bit long. Baez finished the concert, bringing her niece on for an encore, and in fact her entire set was focused on the future, expressing Baez's sense of humor and "you can never go back" attitude toward Harvard Square in the sixties...
...despite the abnormally high level of expired or forgotten PINs--"larger than we expected," Osterberg said--FAS Registrar Arlene Becella said she is nonetheless pleased with the on-line system thus...
...sympathy factor dissipates, Clinton and his fellow Democrats will need to worry about an inevitable fall in the polls. And that could prove to be a particular problem for Gore. Says Dickerson, "People may conclude that although they didn't want Clinton out, he and his Democratic entourage are nonetheless the source of all the woes that led to impeachment." And if that perception begins to take hold, it could lead to a get-all-the-bums out reaction from the electorate...
...warnings to the threat posed by some two dozen other nations--from China to Iran--operating more than 100 diesel-electric subs. Vessels of this type are quiet underwater, but their need to recharge their batteries forces them to surface every day or so, when they become sitting ducks. Nonetheless, Navy planners repeatedly cite the possibility that Iran's three Russian-made Kilo subs could bottle up the mouth of the Persian Gulf in a time of crisis, picking off thin-skinned oil tankers like marksmen at a state fair. But few believe that even this scary scenario would...
Seinfeld parodied Peterman--the tribute, perhaps, of one insubstantial '90s style to another. Illusion is everything, self-deception is indispensable, and Peterman works behind a scrim of pastness, sometimes hilarious but curiously sweet nonetheless. Peterman sells interesting and fairly good-quality stuff (though he lately got caught in a crunch of high inventory, debt and cash-flow problems). The danger, of course, is that you may get the thing in the mail and try it on (a Sherlock Holmes hat or cape, say, or one of those flouncy, too-much-by-half fin-de-siecle velvet gowns: "We drank Veuve...