Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CLOC, an unabashedly white-supremacist organization based in Columbia, South Carolina, takes pride in running locals off certain innocuous parts of Usenet with its race baiting. Members claim to have emptied out half a dozen forums already, including, improbably, alt.fan.barry-manilow and alt.food.dennys. "If you want an organization which makes things happen, visit our victims and learn first-hand what kind of a group we are," they boast at their World Wide Web site, which features an image of a burning cross. "CLOC is clearly on the forefront of the great war for Aryan domination of the Internet...
...complete the remaining year of his two-year contract as coach and general manager. But on Wednesday, he and Huizenga met, and the owner informed him that if Shula stayed, he would have to dismiss most of his coaching staff. The demand was too much for Shula's pride and sense of loyalty. So on Thursday, his 66th birthday, he called it quits, and on Friday the Dolphins announced that Shula, a part-owner of the team, would become vice chairman of the board of directors. His replacement will probably be either former Dallas coach Jimmy Johnson, who had considerable...
...gentle reader, are no doubt aware, we are in the midst of an Austen revival, with movie versions of Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion currently in theaters and an Emma on the way (and already in video stores in the tarty guise of Clueless). Next on the list is Pride and Prejudice, Austen's wittiest tribute to hanging out and hooking up. It airs as a six-hour adaptation for TV on the Arts & Entertainment cable network over three consecutive nights beginning this Sunday...
...piercing, and he cannot take them off her, in one scene ogling her from his bathroom window after languishing in a warm tub. Fortunately, despite one or two other such moments--not to mention an opening-credits sequence in which the camera pans over crinkled-up satin--this Pride and Prejudice never quite veers into Sidney Sheldon territory...
...course, class limitations still play an active role in courtship games. At times, watching this Pride and Prejudice is not unlike reading the wedding pages of the Sunday New York Times, always a banquet of telling socioeconomic detail (alma maters, parents' occupations). You remember that most people travel in small orbits and that the chauffeur's daughter doesn't marry Harrison Ford. That's Austen: romantic comedy with a bracing slap of social truth...