Word: sakes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this is, for Pete's sake, an Oliver Stone movie. When this gifted, truculent director approaches this highly charged subject, we expect something other, something more, than honorable sentiment. It's as if Will Ferrell were to play Hamlet. Not that he couldn't, just that the audience would be waiting for the melancholy Dane to go all giggly, strip off his black tutu and run naked through Elsinore. Similarly, Stone's admirers (and detractors) will monitor World Trade Center for some of the conspiratorial vigor he brought to JFK, or the loopy critique, in Natural Born Killers, of extreme...
...bemused onlooker. It quickly becomes apparent that they share a past and a little less quickly we learn that, yes, they were once married. Not long after we discover that neither has any particular objection to a roll in the hay, just for old time's sake and just so long as its over and done with before she has to catch her early morning flight home...
...independent this fall, blamed Lamont for his polarizing partisanship throughout the campaign.“The old politics of partisan polarization won today,” the former presidential candidate told his supporters the night of his four percentage-point loss. “For the sake of our state, our country and my party, I cannot and will not let that result stand.”But friends from Lamont’s college days at Harvard say that while he was strongly liberal and outspokenly against the Vietnam War, he befriended students across the political spectrum...
...politics of partisan polarization won today,” Lieberman said to his supporters. “For the sake of our state, our country and my party, I cannot and will not let that result stand...
...sake of Darnum's little church, long may she live. Her elegant presence helps keep its Sunday numbers in double figures; she has a son, grandson and great grandchildren who are also regulars. A total of 11 worshipers this morning in a farming town of fewer than 300 people isn't such a bad ratio. But church chairwoman Dianne Sergeant is concerned. "The numbers are slowly dwindling," she says. "We're like many churches today: the congregations are getting older, and with that they're getting a bit smaller...