Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politically correct' scale, we don't even register," comments Sellars gleefully. "People come expecting machine-gun fire and bodies being thrown overboard, and what they get is a bunch of art." Complementing Sellars' vision is Morris' integrated choreography: a silent shadow subtext that swells emotionally as the opera progresses until it hijacks the action, transforming and finally transfiguring...
...Part of the problem stems from the fact that hammerheads, blues and other large species prized for their fins command relatively low prices for their meat, while those with valuable meat have low-value fins. In addition, shark meat spoils so quickly that fin hunters would rather toss it overboard than be bothered with the necessary processing and refrigeration...
...kind of subterranean punishment for bringing that news. Now the tension is reasserting itself." Argued conservative critic Dorothy Rabinowitz last week in a Wall Street Journal article: "The bill, it seems, has come in for the past 20 years," during which time, she claims, the press has gone overboard in post-Watergate prosecutorial zeal...
...between 1968 and 1970, described the fitness hurdle to his editors as "a blatant violation of my constitutional rights, but the correct thing to do" Some journalists asked whether civilian and military officials on inspection tours would face the same rule. Pentagon officials eventually conceded that they had gone overboard and withdrew the test, but said they would still expect correspondents to be fit enough to cope with the desert...
Beattie understands being overboard, which helps her throw best-selling lifelines to those still adrift...