Word: skips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...young playwright shows the unlikely influence of such left-wing dramatists of the era as Clifford Odets. But he must have sat through quite a few Warner Bros. prison films of the '30s as well. Not About Nightingales is paced like a movie, with short scenes that skip willy-nilly from warden's office to cell block, from mess hall to prison yard. The warden (played with fine, greasy intensity by Corin Redgrave, Vanessa's brother) is a sadistic dictator with no redeeming features. The convicts include a bullet-headed tough guy who organizes a hunger strike (James Black...
...Administration is appealing her decision. A three-judge appeals panel that includes two Clinton appointees has said it will hear oral arguments in the matter starting June 26. Starr, who is seeking testimony from White House adviser Bruce Lindsey and three Secret Service employees, wanted the Supreme Court to skip over the appeals court and decide the matter before its summer recess. The court's refusal to hurry the process ensures that even if Starr wins the case, he will not be able to get testimony before the November election. Though he could still send Congress an interim report...
...more time shaping the strategy, because it was losing on the law. Starr has prevailed in his challenges to force presidential confidant Bruce Lindsey and adviser Sidney Blumenthal to testify, along with Secret Service agents, despite White House assertions of special privilege. And Starr asked the Supreme Court to skip the appeals process and hear arguments by the end of this month on the whole privilege question. He also went about gathering Monica Lewinsky's bookstore receipts, fingerprints and handwriting samples, amassing evidence for the day he finally confronts her on the witness stand. Every maneuver, every victory that strengthens...
...point in the season, the Crimson playedwithout Tom Blake, Kunj Majmudar, Scott Clark andJohn Doran, all of whom were in the top six. Yet,with all these injuries stacked up against them,Harvard didn't skip a beat, running through itsregular season opponents with uncommon ease. Itwas not until the match with Virginia Tech thatthe Crimson looked vulnerable...
...precaution, the Freshman Union--where manybelieved the virus was born--shut down for severalmeals and switched to plastic utensils and bottleddrinks. Many students had to skip the winterSocial Analysis 10: "Principles of Economics"midterm the following afternoon...