Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Adams: The time for compromise is when we agree to the broad shape of the future. Our key contribution was getting this started. After the Downing Street Declaration, we persisted in asking for clarifications and accepted them even though they came through the press and the Dublin government. Despite all the prevarications, we have doggedly pushed forward...
Predictably enough, Charlie and Yvonne fall for each other and Muriel decides she cannot take living in Queens any longer. She wants the high life and plastic surgery and her high school sweetheart, Charlie, who has lost his simple charms in her eyes, to shape up or move...
...some deep, queasy, Freudian level, we all know this. Even in the ostensibly "functional," nonviolent family, where no one is killed or maimed, feelings are routinely bruised and often twisted out of shape. There is the slap or put-down that violates a child's shaky sense of self, the cold, distracted stare that drives a spouse to tears, the little digs and rivalries. At best, the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another -- generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate and rage and shame...
...square by "The AC/DC Bag." This disastrous turn of events inspires "Colonel Forbin's Ascent" up the mountain to seek the advice of Icculus, the god of the Lizard people and author of the "Helping Friendly Book." As he climbs, rocks begin to fall all around him, taking the shape of the face of Icculus, who calls upon the "Famous Mockingbird" to fly to the castle and steal back the book for the Lizard people. Icculus delivers a warning, however, that "all knowledge seeming innocent and pure becomes a deadly weapon in the hands of avarice and greed." When Errand...
...Simpson made after an enraged O.J. broke into her house last year. Even so, Garcetti can't have been too sorry at the impression it made when the tape was played over and over again in public. "The prosecution is in the unusual position of having to try to shape public opinion its way," says Charles Weisselberg, a criminal-law expert at the University of Southern California...