Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reference to the U.S. nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki drew loud applause from the assembled factory workers, it attracted swift condemnation from the White House and many of Hollings' congressional colleagues -- not to mention Japanese survivors of the 1945 blasts. The Japanese government said little about the remark when it was widely reported in Tokyo. But the Senator was unrepentant. "I'm defending against America bashing," he said. "When you defend America, they want you to apologize...
When a writer for the stage reveals great promise but has not yet produced fully satisfying work, old hands are apt to remark, "I'm not sure there's a play here, but there's certainly a playwright." Just such tempered optimism is being triggered right now by two emotionally intense, fiercely funny and sadly flawed works by dramatists in their early 30s. One writer -- Howard Korder -- has the slam-bang dialogue and macho preoccupations of a David Mamet in training. The other -- Jon Robin Baitz -- can infuse domestic drama with the burdens of history in the fashion...
Chang said she was "very upset" about the derogatory remark, and notified AAA members two weeks...
Strossen stressed the ACLU's traditional defense of freedom of speech and referred to a remark of one juror in the widely-publicized Florida trial of the rap group 2 Live Crew. "Take away one freedom, and soon they are all gone," she quoted...
...issue is a definite path to getting canned, this was out of the ordinary. But later in the night, King had two guests, one pro-National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and one anti-NEA. He capped a two-hour-long debate between the two with this memorable remark: "Two able spokespersons for two vital causes...next, open phone America...