Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sits on a bench at the St. Nicolas housing projects, six months pregnant after two miscarriages and an abortion. "I got talked to, but I do what I want to do," she says, calling out the number of girls she knows who are pregnant. But if the present numbers hold, girls like Grayton may someday be on that bench by themselves...
...there was a time when auteurs had soul, when Marvin was asking what's going on, when Stevie was singing songs in the key of life, when Aretha was demanding respect. This season, with the ascension of a new generation of neo-soul stars, the past may be present again, and, to paraphrase Fanon, the future may be opening...
...Joey Bishop sat down to dinner or drinks with Frank Sinatra without being invited?'" The slight isn't that Wilson got it wrong, exactly. What rankles Bishop is Wilson's mocking disbelief. "I'm the comic on the bill. He's having dinner, O.K.? If he wanted me present, he would invite me. How do I know he's not talking business? I knew my place. You people"--journalists--"don't believe the truth...
...course of a jailbreak, meets and falls into unlikely love with a U.S. marshal named Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez). He's the kind of guy who works unarmed except for his gift of smooth gab. She's the kind of girl whose idea of a nice present from her dad is a new pistol. (The actors are terrific and sexy together...
Rudenstine said this trip has deepened hisunderstanding of China's present and past...