Word: singularly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anyone paying New York restaurant bills, such advice is invaluable, and Sheraton's singular dedication to her work makes her tops in the field. She eats out 40 times or more a month. She goes to extreme lengths not to be identified, in the belief that anonymity will help her make sure that she receives the same treatment as any other patron. After six years on the bistro beat, she finds anonymity hard to come by. Sheraton is a familiar face at all the bigger and more fashionable eating places in Manhattan; the attention lavished on her at such...
...people do. I think he would rather not do anything wrong, whether on a moral or an artistic level. He is what you would call a man of conscience-not necessarily of judgment, but of conscience. I don't know any actors like that." Susan Newman considers her singular father and says with an innocent smile, "Who knows? None of us in the family has a handle on how Old Skinny Legs made...
...singular virtue of Gandhi that its title figure is also a character in the usual dramatic sense of the term. As portrayed by Ben Kingsley, 37, an actor from the Royal Shakespeare Company making his film debut, Gandhi must age some 50 years. In the process he must convert himself from the vigorous, somewhat arrogant, somewhat dandyish young lawyer who first caught the world's attention with his nonviolent resistance to South Africa's racial laws, to the saintly martyr who finally captured the world's conscience as he willed a nation into being. It is impossible...
Ozmeni has another, more singular, reason for running: He likes going out in "those reflecting clothes which my wife insists I wear lest she be widowed. That's part of the fun, isn't it, wearing all that strange gear. It's like being part of a carnival or festival or something." He especially enjoys blinking his flashlight at oncoming cars to remind drivers to dim their headlights...
...Queen of Angels," the poet actually finds the queen of angels--of says he does. His queen is the same as that of Williams, who writes in Paterson. "Say it, no ideas but in thing." Mudd's entire reason for living is the city's vigor the singular relish humanity takes in its own creations, Eventually, paradise can come on earth. Odes have been written to cities before, but never one so convincing in its optimism...