Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...phrase "winning isn't everything" holds true for the overall season of the Harvard field hockey team...
...know by now that Harvard is "on the information superhighway." But what does this really mean? In fact, the concept is more than just a political catch-phrase...
...million war chest: "He is banking on the fact that he can raise enough money from the extreme right-wing -- the extra-chromosome right wing -- to come in and buy enough advertising to just overwhelm the truth with blatant falsehoods." North's campaign staff seized on the phrase to accuse Gore of insensitivity to children with Down's Syndrome, pointing out that extra chromosomes cause the condition. Gore soon apologized, calling his remark "inappropriate" and "insensitive...
...acting is for the most part good; however, the roles lend themselves to overacting because they are more form than substance and rely for characterization on idiosyncratic turns of phrase. Nonetheless, Howard, Siegel and Murad, who in addition to Nicky appears as various bit characters, give very strong performances, and manage to resist their characters' tendencies towards irritating extravagance...
After that celebrated turn of phrase, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin--who has been seen, of late, pumping the flesh of men of less repute--refused to share a podium with Leibovitz. All this from an octogenarian clad in plaid, with tooth-white hair and a black yarmulke...