Word: soled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PAIGE GOODMAN She sued to be sole valedictorian. Now there's a serious student...
...sending Congressmen overseas because they can be loose cannons in sensitive negotiations. Even Richardson has been known to commit a diplomatic faux pas. During his Baghdad meeting with Saddam to free Daliberti and Barloon, the Iraqi leader stormed out briefly when Richardson crossed his legs and showed his shoe sole--a sign of disrespect in Arab culture. "We connected because I was honest and tough,'' says Richardson. "I didn't apologize, even when I crossed my legs...
...sight of a short skirt or a doe-eyed co-ed; Elle Macpherson, in a cameo as his ex-girlfriend, reduces him to a whimpering puddle without doing much more than blinking and smiling. Devastated by the failure of all his sexual relationships, Gregory decides that the sole route to true happiness is through intellectual stimulation alone, and places an ad in the newspaper to that effect. Sister Claire answers the ad for Rose, the two star-crossed non-lovers meet, and our fairy tale begins to pick up steam. But after some months of electrifying conversation and a mutual...
...Academie Francaise's much-publicized hysteria over the bastardization of the French language by Americanisms is only the tip of France's long-standing obsession with language. In the 18th-century court portrayed in "Ridicule," the skillful manipulation of language is the sole means of gaining and keeping social status. The world of Versailles is shaped by what they refer to as "wit." Lest one believe that this wit is based on the crass premise of merely producing amusement, one French noble dismisses disdainfully the "hew-mah" of the English as being far inferior to French...
...dance in the doctor's parlor with Mathilde, as young Paul, a deaf-mute of the Doctor's household, mimicks them, dancing alone in the field outside. Or the masquerade scene, where Gregoire is barefaced, ringed by the towering wigs and vulture-like beaks of the masqueraders, the sole non-player...