Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Caxman Shrestha, owner of the Delhi Darbar, a Holyoke St. Indian restaurant, said his restaurant stocks up on extra edibles and beverages for a food stand along the Charles during each year's regatta...
Ilana Rhodes, who runs a kiosk in the Holyoke Center arcade called Caribbean African Creations, said the weather drove customers away. She said here stand had almost no customers the entire...
...face to face with a real anti-Semite, you would turn tail and run, as pseudo-intellectuals like yourself have done all over the world. Gould and Dershowitz are attacked in the article not because of their Jewishness, but because of their pronouncements (such as Professor Gould's implied stand against religious belief) and their actions (such as Professor Dershowitz's participation in the defense of O.J. Simpson...
...expect a hardened, embattled writer who, like most who have achieved worldwide recognition, is fairly arrogant. Instead, at the traditional Harvard time of seven minutes after the hour, a minuscule lady with long glimmering gray hair took her place in front of the podium (she was too short to stand be seen standing behind it). At first, it was hard to believe that this gentle, unassuming woman was the famous Maxine Hong Kingston whose ideas had had such a large impact upon American literature. It soon became obvious, though, that her true power lay not in an imposing presence...
...these pacific figures, Leigh adds shaking, saddened Cynthia -- and there lies the rub. Blethyn gives Cynthia all the delicacy and poise of a crack baby, at times almost frightening to watch. This portrayal works to a large extent and could probably stand on its own. She is, in truth, still a child who was thrust into playing the adult early on, and Blethyn's small, quavering voice further lends a perfect, little-girl feel to all her quirky little expressions ("I wouldn't know 'im if'e stood up in me soup...