Word: skepticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...history of drug and alcohol abuse is well-documented, both his wives' noses probably still sting from all the punches they've taken from Strawberry, and he is a convicted tax cheat. Yet, I am not the only New York skeptic who honestly thought the man had redeemed himself...
Sargent was an American artist. With his older contemporary James Whistler, he was the first American painter since Benjamin West to become famous in England--and in France too. But he never set foot in the U.S. until his 21st year, and only rarely thereafter. The skeptic might say he hardly even qualified as an expatriate. As a boy he had no patria beyond the rented flat and the hotel room, and thus was unencumbered by the tension of nostalgia for early belonging that affects the real expat...
...skeptic," said a lobbyist who paled at the thought of giving his name. It's especially important that a novice like Ventura hear the needs of farmers, truck drivers, doctors, teachers, etc., the lobbyist said. "It takes more than sound bites to run a state with a $20 billion budget...
...manifold. His next novel is a "fantasy technothriller" featuring terrorists and assassins. He contributes to Wired and the Australian magazine World Art and spends loving hours maintaining busy e-mail lists on "dead media," foreign-language science-fiction and postindustrial design. And though he's a proper punk skeptic when it comes to politics--"My job is to play with nutty ideas, not grapple with serious issues"--he is truly obsessed with global warming, which this year's brutal Southwestern drought brought a bit too close to home. "Why am I living in a world where I walk onto...
...hunting safe for children's minds and emotions? Does it, as Lisa Lange says, speaking for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, "teach children that life is not valuable?" A skeptic might observe that if anyone is teaching children in American society that life is not valuable, that teacher speaks through the media of television and movies and gangsta rap, not hunting...