Word: notionally
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Lori's mom Doris echoes what Dole tells women: they should work only if they want to, a 1950s notion that defies the economy of the 1990s. "If I had my choice, both of my daughters would stay home," says Doris. She reared her five children while her husband Ed worked for 27 years at Sears. But she realizes Lori has little choice, so she thought about what matters to her most, and then made a decision about her own life that makes all the difference in Lori...
...lead character ever on TV. Disney, the show's producer, and ABC remain silent on the sitcom's plans. All the network will say is that it has yet to see a script with a lesbian story line. Some industry executives speculate, however, that the network leaked the notion of outing Ellen to test advertiser reaction. DeGeneres has reportedly never been comfortable with the dating subplots of her TV vehicle, and now that rerun rights have been sold to Lifetime in a relatively disappointing deal, she has little to lose by making Ellen Morgan a lesbian...
...data doesn't support this. After all, our football team has an all-time losing record against the Elis, and Harvard athletes seem to think that games against Yale are big, important ones, which would tend to suggest that Yale might actually be equal with us. Perish the notion...
...what they anticipated it would," Simons says. "Clearly they were worried about the direction things were going which explains their quick response in agreeing to come here." Netanyahu and Arafat took a private lunch that White House spokesman Mike McCurry said went "a long way to re-establishing the notion of trust" that led Israel and the Palestinian Authority to signing the Oslo peace accords three years ago. But so far there has been no word of concrete movement on the issues by either side. "Netanyahu has painted himself into a corner, so he will really have to back down...
Leigh denies an explicit strain of autobiography in Secrets & Lies. He does say, "There are people close to me, whom I can't talk about, who have had adoption-related experiences. I also had a notion to do something with a generation of black people who are growing up and moving on. And we had some research about black babies born to white women in the '50s and '60s. But did I know the story? No. Those are the sorts of things one discovers by making the film...