Word: recounting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same time, Kingston has been labeled a radical feminist, a fake and a traitor to her Chinese heritage. But the popularity of her books is incontestable. These antinostalgic nonfiction memoirs recount the sometimes fantastical tales of her childhood. Many times, her own life-stories are intertwined with myth and story-telling, as if Kingston herself had a hard time distinguishing between the two. This melding of fact and fiction has brought criticism from some quarters, and praise from others...
...streets here are so narrow. It's no wonder that big American cars don't sell here. I don't see how they'd fit on these roads. The traffic is always horrible, so instead everyone here rides bikes. This actually makes it very dangerous for pedestrians. I can recount numerous occasions when I have nearly been run over by reckless bicyclists, on their way to school or work. Apparently, its a common threat all over Japan, Mr. Yamamoto likes to call them "kamikaze bikers...
Some Galluccio backers aid they will ask for a recount, as this was the first election to use a computerized vote-tallying system
...being turned. One moment, we see a confrontation between a young black man and old Sheriff Wade, ages ago, in a bar. Then the camera sweeps upward slowly--and we're staring in the face of Sheriff Sam Deeds, present-tense, listening to the same, now grey-templed man recount the story...
...companies feel they don't get a fair shake in the media, so the History Channel's offer was enticing. The 18-month-old cable network, seen in 19.2 million homes, was gearing up The Spirit of Enterprise, a series of hourlong documentaries, each of which would recount the history of a different corporation--and be produced by the corporation itself. AT&T, DuPont and General Motors were among those who had signed on; the first show, on Boeing, was already nearing completion. But last week, after the series was publicized and questions were raised about how objective these "histories...