Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brooks has plenty to sing about. His wife Holly, their three young children and their Brentwood home were relatively unscathed by last Monday's earthquake. His Anything ordeal is over. His new cartoon series The Critic -- created by Simpsons swamis Al Jean and Mike Reiss -- premieres on ABC this week, preceded by reviewers' raves. The show, with its post-Woody Allenish wit and deft movie parodies, looks like a winner...
...Canadians did not reoccupy the checkpoint, but the U.N. was determined to play down the ordeal. "This is a minor incident," said Major Idesbald van Biesebroeck, spokesman for the United Nations Protection Force in Sarajevo. Only in Bosnia, where 10,000 peacekeepers walk the thin line between being humanitarians and combatants, could such treatment of U.N. troops be considered a minor incident. "Repetition creates a sense of ordinariness," said Petrokilis. "Of course, what the Bosnian Serbs did here was inexcusable. But similar things happen all the time on all sides -- just pick your belligerent...
Mayo's main objection to Council member Tom E. Woods' selection--the United Daughters of the Confederacy--was much loftier. Dredging up the whole Confederate flag ordeal, Mayo suggests that these ladies exist to offend the likes of Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, rather than to preserve Southern culture. Mayo responds to Woods' description of Moseley-Braun as an "arrogant elite" by suggesting that Peninsula is presumptuous in suggesting that a Black female could actually be an elite. I hope all of those who feel black women are unqualified to be members of the elite are, like Mayo, no longer part...
...Center. $5 for students. "Model" at 7 p.m. This shows men and women models at work on TV commercials, fashion shows, print advertising, posing for magazine covers and ads for a variety of products. "Night of the Hunter" at 10 p.m. At stunning and dramatically gripping portrayal of the ordeal an unscrupulous man inflicts on two children in order to find where their deceased father has hidden...
...housewife who walls herselfup, brick by brick, in a tomb of her own making."Devil in the Flesh" at 7:30 p.m.Recollections of the young warrior who, during theArmistice celebrations in 1918, follows hisgirlfriend's funeral at a distance. "Night ofthe Hunter" at 10 p.m. Portrayal of the ordeal anunscrupulous man inflicts on two children in orderto find where their deceased father has hidden...