Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dare imagine the consequences to these candidates after consuming a sausage calzone, a gyro, a samosa, a pastrami on rye with a half-sour pickle, a pint of brown ale, a dozen baby back ribs and a cannoli, all in 45 minutes? Will the Secret Service have the sense to avoid disaster by leaping in front of their candidate and wrestling the innocent-looking kielbasa to the ground...
...Willis." But he can't let go. His girl liked pineapples, so each day he buys a can that expires at the end of the month, then eats all 30 in a binge of self-pity. By the time he runs into the blond, her drug deal has gone sour. Does he catch her, or even catch on to her? No: he takes off her shoes as she sleeps, and later she leaves him a message wishing him happy birthday. That's enough for a rapturous moment of modernist romance. He'll hold on to that memory forever...
...pull the U.S. out of NAFTA and GATT, impose a 20% tariff on Chinese goods, 10% on imports from Japan and some kind of levy on goods from Mexico. Combine that with his hard line on immigration, his culture war, his unyielding opposition to abortion and the sweet-and-sour delivery he perfected on Crossfire. Papa's got a brand-new populism...
...full of intellectual pretense ("Hamlet is Bosnia..."), and Julia Sawalha's Ophelia, stumbling about because she refuses to wear glasses onstage. Joan Collins does such a nice turn as a high-powered agent that one fancies she might make a go of acting if writing novels continues to sour for her. Branagh sometimes sacrifices bite to the sentiment so endemic to show biz. But this bustling, affectionately knowing film is never slow...
...Harvard as, say, an aspiring biologist might choose an alternative field of concentration after earning consistently low grades in the field. We could view this as unfortunate; after all, it takes time to learn the knack of a new field. What a waste for an enthusiastic mind to turn sour due to one poor grade...