Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that his crazy volatility ignited The Godfather. Now he's almost beamish as a wary fixer. He's still funny, but his new characterization, like the success of The Sopranos and Analyze This, reminds us how quickly we have converted palpable menace to pure ethnic comedy. Is this progress? Not really. But in the context of Mickey Blue Eyes it's easy to fuhgeddaboutit...
...director of Information Technology Services at Yale University also declined to comment because a federal investigation is currently in progress...
...director of Information Technology Services at Yale University also declined to comment because a federal investigation is currently in progress...
...salesmen, dime-store novels, movies and the National Rifle Association (NRA)--which, incidentally, was not opposed to gun control until the 1960s, when gun buying sharply increased--it would seem that creating a gun-free society would be fairly easy. But the culture itself has retarded such progress by creating and embellishing an absurd though appealing connection among guns, personal power, freedom and beauty. The old western novels established a cowboy corollary to the Declaration of Independence by depicting the cowboy as a moral loner who preserves the peace and his own honor by shooting faster and surer than...
...Over the last five years, we have made so much progress," Levin said. "Those on the other side seem to be grabbing for any straw they...