Search Details

Word: rues (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Thomas, who reluctantly concurred with the majority, joined dissenter Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in fearing that the decision would have an adverse effect on black defendants who want to exclude white potential jurors to get minority representation on their juries. "I am certain that black criminal defendants will rue the day that this court ventured down this road," wrote Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bar to Peremptory Jury Challenges | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

Pockets Full of Rue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Jun. 8, 1992 | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

...boredom, and in this they were perfectly true to the social world they addressed, since most of the life of a girl in a maison close was taken up with sitting around. The tedium of the big-city seraglio becomes monumental, almost Egyptian, with In the Salon at the Rue des Moulins, circa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cutting Through The Myth | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...interview with an Arizona station, he was told -- inaccurately -- that Jesse Jackson was about to endorse the failing Harkin. Clinton, unaware that the camera and microphones were on, | delivered a tirade in which he accused Jackson of "backstabbing" him. That outburst got nationwide display, free exposure that Clinton may rue for weeks. As Clinton tried to mollify the Democrats' best-known black leader, Jackson complained about the "blast at my integrity." For Clinton, the possible cost of the incident was loss of black support, on which he counts heavily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Campaign | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...poignant confession of rue, and Ramsay would appear to be a classic sensitive narrator. But Wilson is up to something more, which gives the book considerable strength. Near the end, Ramsay betrays his best friend to, of all people, Raphael Hunter, with serious consequences. No one in the large cast escapes the author's stern moral gaze. Ramsay is last seen scheming, probably bootlessly, to pursue the latest young woman to fall in love with Albion Pugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mortal Fools | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Next