Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Were they alive in a few short months for the start of the confirmation hearings, the authors of the Constitution would be glued to C-Span watching what may be the final episode of the American federal judiciary they intended...
...Bill Clinton thinks he is going to get the public ear about taxes or health care during this next few weeks, he is mistaken. A congressional aide confesses the three sets in his boss's office are on CNN, C-Span and March Madness. There is no contest. Let the country pause...
This is a big and ambitious book whose events span a century, and right at the beginning Hijuelos announces his intention to take his time telling it. "A lot of people wrongly discount the quality of photographs produced by the type of camera I use," Nelson O'Brien tells his son Emilio in the quote that opens the book. "But this apparatus, in my opinion, captures not only the superficial qualities of its subjects but also, because of the time it takes to properly collect light, their feelings, as they settle on the subjects' expressions; sadness and joy and worry...
...last four years, Princeton has dominated the Ancient Eight like Godzilla over Tokyo. Tiger Coach Pete Carril's troops amassed a 48-8 league record over that span--including a perfect 14-0 season two years...
Just forty-five seconds after the opening tip, freshman point guard Elizabeth Proudfit canned a trey to put the Crimson up 3-2 and ignite a 29-7 run over a 9:41 span which effectively ended the game...