Word: overruns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Barrymore and Laurence Olivier to Mel Gibson and Keanu Reeves. The latest is Ralph Fiennes, who stars in a production that has traveled from London's Almeida Theatre Company to Broadway. Fiennes, 32, is known primarily as a movie actor (he played the unforgettable chief villain -- in a world overrun by villainy -- of Schindler's List, and the fair-haired, clay-footed young scholar, Charles Van Doren, of Quiz Show), but his roots are in theater, and he handles Shakespeare's great role with a commanding blend of intelligence and ardor...
Immigration. We are not us anymore. Americans of earlier arrival looked back nostalgically, bitterly, to a virtuous Edenic America, now lost and overrun. Whitman, the bard of democracy, harbored some of the Know-Nothings' nativist bigotries. He referred to a "coarse, unshaven, filthy Irish rabble...
...Hartford chorus could have sung the song "Another One Bites the Dust" for game one yesterday. The Hawks, a team that has lost many close games this season, were overrun by the Crimson during the final three innings in a 4-2 Harvard victory...
...above and beyond the food, the decor, and Colin, the patrons are what make Liberty a mecca. Harvard students have yet to overrun this den of MIT students and Central Square locals. Wardrobe-wise, the fashion consensus seems to be black, black and some black eyeliner with maybe a little black lipstick. Half the patrons seem to mysteriously choose orange as an alternative. A woman with blue hair in an orange Guttermouth t-shirt reads some book about alchemy. A pack of men in makeup hovers by the register. We argue over whether the student at the next table...
According to these narrow, Eastern minds, L.A. is being overrun by a slew of evils, including earthquakes, fires, riots, mudslides, defense cutbacks, immigrant bashers, Forrest Gump lovers and the aforementioned Mr. Simpson's defense team...