Word: propped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...films, most of them labored and plot heavy. But as a live act, Martin and Lewis were awesome. Their appearances on NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour made the viewer a co-conspirator in their anarchy; they broke the "fourth wall" as blithely as if it were a cardboard prop, and incorporated their famous arguments into gag lyrics for their duets. They worked literally nose to nose: Jerry would lick Dean's face; Dean would flick his cigarette ashes in Jerry's mouth (and lick Jer's face). It was primal therapy on the 12-inch screen, stripping bare a volatile...
...TIME's nonscientific speculation is the height of gullibility. You tell us that after the Cambrian explosion, everything else was a piece of cake. Even the human brain might be just the result of elaborate tinkering with details. Could some human brains be tinkering with details to try to prop up entrenched dogmas that are being severely undermined by marvelous discoveries like this one? JULIA HENDRICKSON Calistoga, California...
...internal health: to dry up the poverty that spawns drug growers, boat people and terrorists; to encourage clean and responsive governments capable of addressing grievances. What kind of U.S. foreign policy can foster such conditions? The tools Washington has inherited from the cold war, designed to defend territory and prop up clients, are certainly unsuited to the task...
...Francisco Bureau Chief David Jackson reports: "California has an enormous number of illegal aliens, and 187 was an attempt to slow their influx. But as this judge's ruling illustrates, there are a lot of complex legal questions involved, and this is a long way from being resolved. Prop 187 has never really been implemented. It was virtually frozen in its tracks the day after the elections by lawsuits challenging its legality. This ruling will have little immediate impact not only because of the court challenges, but also because many of the teachers and medical professionals have refused to withhold...
Knowles recalled visiting the building right after the crack was found, early in the renovations. Twenty steel beams had to be used to prop the building up, he said...