Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lackluster that the dean urged him to go full time or quit. Clark left Loyola without graduating and studied for the bar exam on his own. On the second try, he passed. He went home to Oxnard, "opened up my own firm and waited for the phone to ring." It did, and Clark became quite successful as an attorney. He was also active in the family ranching business...
There are many gags in the movie which work, not because of skilled turns by pratfall-meister Chase, but because of well thought-out and well-timed routines which ring true in the context of the movie...
...world looks at Japan through one lens, the Japanese see themselves through another. Japan is a global force with an insular mentality, a superior organism that still harbors the soul of a small, isolated land. Living on their archipelago in the "Pacific Ring of Fire," vulnerable as always to earthquakes and typhoons, virtually unarmed, without any significant natural resources, dependent on the outside world for oil and food, the Japanese have a hard time seeing themselves as any kind of threat. "In our history of 2,000 years," says Taro Aso, a member of the Japanese parliament, "this...
...part of people I met and men I dated outside the business, that stupidity was a prerequisite for a modeling career. At one point, though I had to ask myself if I really had the right to feel indignant about being treated dumb model because there was a growing ring of truth to it I had left high school at 16, a voracious reader. Now, at 23, I hadn't read through a book in years. The realization that a transitory stage had turned into a way of life brought on a panic and depression which my grandparent could never...
...recounted the steps leading to their acquisition, and their costs. Some of the rooms, most notably a child's den, were dark and half-furnished. By the time dinner was served, my feet ached, the sycophants had shifted into high gear and the evening had acquired a deafeningly hollow ring leaving me with the impression that certain kinds of success make failure look downright edifying by contrast...