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Word: sakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...native Alabamian, I am particularly concerned that our natural areas be recognized for their full value and protected from chip mills for the sake of future generations," he wrote in a letter soliciting signatures...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wilson Joins Anti-Logging Campaign | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

...composed of crystalline tones: breezy guitars that ring like wind chimes; crisp, jazzy vocals. A few of the songs attack pop radio ("Boring!" she sings). On other numbers Mitchell gets more personal, recounting her mother's disapproval of a live-in boyfriend. Mitchell's reply: "For God's sake!/I'm middle-aged, Mama." And on the album's best song, Harlem in Havana, Mitchell summons up childhood memories of sneaking off to watch risque carnival sideshows. "Aunt Ruthie would have cried," she sings. "If she knew/We were on the inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Joni Mitchell: Burning Bright | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...indroduction in the book, providing us with a glimpse of the verbal gymnastics that are to come. In the end, Nabokov's novel is largely about the power of language to transform a fundamentally disturbing situation into an exquisite work of art which we can admire for its own sake...

Author: By Irene J. Hahn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Film About Film: Lyne's 'Lolita' Opens | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...David Schippers plan to keep their post-vote deliberations under lock and key -- or at least low-key -- until hearings formally begin after the November 3 elections. It's a strategy that speaks volumes; not only is Hyde hoping to keep the messy subject out of sight for the sake of fast-fading bipartisanship -- not to mention the oft-cited Rodino format -- but the GOP is also recognizing that the defection of a mere 31 Democrats Thursday was not exactly the heartiest support they could have wished for. Republicans, too, are uneasy about the Pandora's box they just opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Quiet on Clinton Probe | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...traitor to the Motherland or anything, Boym says she prefers sake to vodka. But if it's going to be vodka, it's absolutely Absolut. "Because I like the name," explains Boym. Although when she's expecting guests or grad students she says she buys Stolichnaya, just to "live up to their expectations of Russian-ness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF SHOPPING IN CAMBRIDGE | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

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