Word: shame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extraordinary talents of these individuals fall under a category far removed from boring dinner party antics. These human achievements put to shame junior varsity gags like showing fifteen grapes into the mouth, separating each and every toe ("monkey toes") or stuffing an entire Twizzler down the throat and using it as a straw. No mere tricks, these are true talents...
Forget President Clinton, forget Ken Starr and forget Monica Lewinsky. Hillary Clinton is the prime source of my shame, embarrassment and disgust these days. In continuing to "stand by her man," the First Lady is setting no kind of moral example for Americans. Certainly Hillary needs to forgive her husband. She also needs to take no more of this kind of behavior. ROSALIE Y. DWYER Aurora...
...Matter" and "Bigger is Better" can a pure human drama still affect us? Leave it to Meryl Streep to squash all doubts about that. Her latest acting showcase, One True Thing, tells such an incredibly small story that it puts all the vast, sweeping movies of recent memory to shame. The film tells the story of a single family and manages to weave a stunningly intricate emotional epic. The main narrative unfolds in a flashback. Reporter Ellen Gulden is being questioned by a district attorney about assisting in her cancer-stricken mother's death. Using characters grounded in the simplicities...
...shame that Tara MacDonald, though a student at the Harvard School of Education, doesn't want to go into teaching. After all, even Detroit's legendary headmaster Joe Clark never won a round from Dallas, the American Gladiator. As the 6 foot, 150 1b, U.S. National Champion in the Chinese martial art Sanshou, Tara would be particularly suited to keeping even the most rowdy students in line...
...different, but that's the whole point of the special concentration--to have an interdisciplinary look at health care," Ackerly says. "There are so many resources here that it would be a shame not to tap into them at the undergraduate level...