Word: outgrew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film ricochets through 50 years of Nixon's life; it suggests that he never outgrew a severe rural childhood or an attachment to his stern mother; it includes both a March of Time summation of his career and a scene in which the great man argues with his wife across the expanse of a long dinner table. Citizen Nixon, anyone? You might expect that Stone, our most vigorous and cinematically ambitious director, would be drawn to create a prismatic, Kane-like portrait of a potentate who was an enigma, not least to himself. But no. Stone is content to dramatize...
...Islam members often appear mild-mannered, yet they simmer with antiwhite rage. Sharod Baker, a Columbia sophomore involved with the Nation since he was 14, is a diligent student and former volunteer tutor. His mother remembers his adolescent anger when he first joined the sect, but she believes he outgrew it. Friends remark on how he differs from the hostile image of the Fruit of Islam. But when his mother and friends are not around, Baker admits his fury at whites is unrelenting. "I don't think there's anything wrong with saying I hate them. They have caused...
...Garment District andDollar-a-Pound are manifestations of the recycledclothes trend. And the history of the organizationtypifies that of the new generation of usedclothing stores appearing across the country.Founded in the 1940's, the company produced"wiping clothes" (i.e. rags) to smokestackindustries, such as sugar manufacturing. Thesweatshirt your dad outgrew in 1958 may have endedup here; it would have undergone a simple processwhich included sorting bales of discarded clothingfrom various sources, cutting them into 18-inchsquares, and adding chemicals to improve thefabric's absorbency...
...wrote the couple a letter about how awful it was to have two lesbian mothers and how deeply she wished things were different. At the end of the letter, Diane's older son appended the message, "Mom, don't worry. I used to feel this way, but I outgrew it. -- David." Allison has too. The children are all, according to their parents, "flaming heterosexuals...
...Tony winner for Best Musical was a dull disappointment, hitching beloved Gershwin songs and sprightly choreography to a slow narrative, undefined characters and blah performances. It reveled in the adolescence that the American musical outgrew...