Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...important to realize that inherent in any language is its constant subjectability to change. No language, despite the grandest efforts, can resist change over time. Any perusal of texts from a wide variety of time periods will reveal this. No stage of a language is inherently superior to any other, since language naturally adapts to new environments and conditions. If people find it easier to make themselves understood by saying something in a slightly new fashion, such innovation will survive depending on its effectiveness and usefulness. Thus we see the application of the survival of the fittest theory to language...
...bought brine Freon chillers (cost: $640,000), which are powerful enough to make ice in July. The units were too big to fit through the building's doors, so Trump removed the roof, lowered the machinery inside, then replaced the roof. Trump, a man of expensive tastes, could not resist a luxurious touch: instead of using pine for the rest stands, as the city had planned, he chose polished teak...
...fray. Changes their lives too. This pansexual thief takes the couple on his heists and woos them both before vacating the premises. He takes Monique to bed but pines indefatigably for mousy Antoine. Unashamed by his voracious sexual appetite, Bob overwhelms the poor little guy. Who could resist such declarations of ardor? They become lovers, then transvestites. But only one of them looks really fetching in a dress and pumps. And in beauty there is power...
Cohen and Carlos are so very good with their tender, amusing scenes that they manage to steal the show from the somewhat clever narrative device. They seem to resist the heavy hand of the playwright and keep their characters alive...
Just ask Mike Curtis, one of the idea's originators, whose biggest passion in life is ice cream. "To give ice cream up that long is a great sacrifice," he said. "I have to resist make your own sundae and oreo ice cream all the time. I haven't had one ounce in six weeks...