Word: seat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment, Tiger Woods, would benefit from the counsel of Jackie's widow Rachel Robinson, who stood as tall at Shea the other night as she did 50 years ago, when she rose from her seat to shield her husband from the racial invectives being hurled at him. During the ceremony honoring Jackie, Rachel called on America to "reawaken the feelings of unity and use them as a driving force...
Eugene Izzi wrote pretty good detective stories. So they say. But he was never in the same class--business class, with every suit in every seat in every 747 out of O'Hare reading the same paperback--as John Grisham or Robert B. Parker. This reviewer never happened to read any of the 16 Izzi novels listed on the op-title page of his last thriller, A Matter of Honor (Avon; 424 pages; $24). A lot of other people didn't either...
...satanic ritual." If I combined "Fornicate-With-Me Red" and "Daddy's Girl Pink" with a dark green shade on one of my toes that started out as "British Jaguar" but was really "Racing Green," I could say "I want to fornicate with you in the back seat of the luxury car my daddy bought for me on my sixteenth birthday." Needless to say, this came in handy in numerous social situations, even if the only car my family owns is a station wagon and I've never used the back seat for anything other than transportation...
...frustration for the viewer comes when scenes open in the middle of conversations that are never fully explained. Then they close without resolving the issues raised in the scene. There's an urge to suddenly jump out of one's seat and yell, "What is going on? I don't understand what you're talking about!" Mamet also seems to expect prior knowledge and intelligence from his audience. The first act involves the history of the Jews that I would not have understood unless I had luckily taken Foreign Cultures 56: "Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Before 1914" this semester...
...announcing that he will set up a committee to oversee future high-level appointments. The panel will be led by Finance Minister Dan Meridor and Trade Minister Natan Sharansky, two Cabinet members who reportedly had considered resigning over the scandal. The move should help Netanyahu preserve his fragile six-seat hold on power in the Knesset. Two centrist parties, the Third Way and Sharansky's Israel Be'Aliya, said Monday that they would remain, along with two Cabinet members from the Likud Party. Netanyahu can count on the loyalty of the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party whose leader, Arieh Deri...