Word: spites
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...have a point--and not just because she's my niece. Wicked has tapped into a theme that seems to crop up in a lot of Broadway shows these days: stories of misfits or underdogs who prove their worth in spite of the odds. Hairspray revolves around a zaftig high school dance whiz who fights for racial integration and fat-girl power in 1962 Baltimore. The Color Purple, the Oprah-produced musicalization of Alice Walker's novel, is the uplifting story of an African-American girl's journey from abused teen to empowered adult. The action hero...
Jamestown left a record of spite, want and death, to say nothing of the long-range problems, from racism to lung cancer, of which the colonists were unaware. Yet they survived. Key aspects of the Jamestown template--chiefly the lures of religious liberty, private ownership and a measure of self-rule--guaranteed that British North America would be populous enough to withstand challenges from France and Holland and, finally, the power grabs of the mother country...
...White House certainly seems to think it is. The Administration has lately been chuckling to itself, pleased that in spite of all the resolute prognostication of pundits and experts and what most observers viewed as Gonzales' less than stellar performance on Capitol Hill last week, Bush has managed to keep his Attorney General in office. Even as more Republican Senators, most notably John McCain, join the call for Gonzales to resign, many - some stunned, some frustrated, some simply resigned - say they think the White House has weathered the storm. "There's only two people who can make the decision...
...spite of being one oar down and having the extra dead weight to be carried by the other seven oarsmen, though, the boat still held its own and crossed the finish line nine seconds behind the Bears with a time...
...explains its somewhat quirky contents. As a result of the collection’s organic growth process, its contents do not reflect a “Who’s Who” of the video art world. Nam June Paik, for instance, is nowhere to be found.But in spite of the esoteric subject matter, the gallery has seen a steady flow of visitors, and Lambert-Beatty is pleased with how it has been received.When Aranda and Vidokle first created the video rental scheme, they had no idea that it would last as long or travel as widely...