Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they did the film's subplots, perhaps we would have come away feeling that two kindred souls had found each other rather than wondering why a man who had been happy in his bachelorhood would eagerly relinquish it for a woman who seems little more than a lovely shell...
...gave my ten dollars. There was no doubt in my mind that the shell-shocked children of Sarajevo need 5-pound blocks of cheese and mountains of band-aids more than I need a 12-pack of beer. And it was heartening to see my classmates doing the same...
...sending food to the people of Sarajevo, we are merely fattening up the ducks in shooting gallery. As stale as the bread may be when it gets there, it's not going to stop a 60mm mortar shell...
...seen to that. There was much talk in Washington last week about how sometimes it takes a great tragedy to bring movement toward peace by forcing statesmen to look at the hell into which they are drifting. Witness Bosnia, where the killing of 68 people by a mortar shell in the Sarajevo market brought a detectable, if far from conclusive, movement toward an agreement. It would indeed be one of history's rare beneficial ironies if Goldstein, against all his intentions, gave Israel and the P.L.O. a strong push down the road to peace. He could still succeed...
...fake emotion." (I started to wonder how much practice went into creating that superb air guitarist.) Lest I misinterpret his commitment to his characters, Cruise clarified, "That's not to say I go home and bite Nic's neck." (I felt like he was slowly letting me into his shell--first angst, now wit! Persistence was gradually paying...