Word: skips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...added that when his next movie comesout, "I'm going to ask everyone to stay home onRosh Hashana." He was referring to Lee's requestthat Black people skip work and school to attendthe upcoming opening of his film, "Malcolm...
Thank heaven all the characters in this cheerless book have enough money so that they can skip from London to country and from town house to studio when the need arises, as it so often does. Their conversation is spare and broody and liberally sprinkled with dots: "I lack the . . . the stamina . . . yes." Along the way the cliches mount, crowned by the blatant use of children's deaths to prod the action toward some kind of climax; otherwise Sin would be a serial. Here's hoping the other six vices are not on Hart's agenda...
This year has seen a merger of campaigning andentertainment. As television shows skip across theline from art to public affairs and back again,they risk losing sight of their purpose andsacrificing focus...
Appiah believes his views on race are painfully obvious. "I take most of what I say to be part of intelligent common sense," he says. "When people like Skip urged me, having talked to me, to write down those things that I thought, I thought it would be a waste of time...
...victory. Last week Bush's legal advisers were studying ways to allow Baker to remain as Secretary of State and simply append himself to the White House staff as a kind of supercounselor who would oversee both the White House and the campaign. To avoid excess publicity, Bush may skip a big takeover announcement. "Baker will come over," said an adviser, "and that will...