Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...particular, I feel very strongly about preaching the importance of education," Herschbach says. "Nobody asked me to do any preaching on that subject before the Nobel Prize...
...Karen Tumulty. "The White House is referring everyone to the President's lawyer. And the President's lawyer isn't saying anything." Even seemingly innocuous details (like how long the sessions lasted) were under wraps as reporters were summarily referred to a statement by attorneys for the pair. "The subject of the interviews was the telephonic solicitation of contributions in the 1994-1996 time period," the statement said. "Consistent with past practice, no further statement about the content of the interviews will be made at this time." Nixon, anyone...
...Mandela, were last year's allegations that Mandela intended to sell chemical weapons to Syrian dictator Hafiz al-Assad. This episode was followed by a state visit by Vice President Al Gore Jr. '69 to South Africa during which Gore is reported not to have even broached the subject of the arms deal in his conversations with the South African president...
Everyone is talking about Ally McBeal. Produced by David E. Kelley, who created Picket Fences and Chicago Hope, the show portrays a single woman struggling with work and love, and it has become another subject of arch, joshing disputes between the sexes, like football and Michael Bolton. To many women, Ally is quirky, contradictory and wonderful; to many men, she is a simpering drag. Our mission here is to settle this question once and for all. The answer? Simpering drag, but not hopeless...
What is off-putting about My Brother is that it is only glancingly a portrait of her younger half brother Devon Drew, who died of AIDS two years ago in Antigua. Its real subject is Kincaid's scalded psyche: how she felt about Devon's life (contemptuous at its waste--he was a charming, irresponsible, sexually profligate layabout); about his death (torn but loyal--she bought AZT in the U.S., and the drug gave him a remission); and about Antigua (bitter). The underlying, overflowing theme, as always, is anger...