Word: summed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sum, Dilbert, despite all his brainpower, is a hapless fool. Good strip, though...
...worst, Pacino has let himself degenerate into the mere sum of his quirks -- short stature emphasized by a rolling, shambling gait, gargling intonations, facial tics, a veritable thesaurus of hand gestures. At his best, as he is in a daring pair of roles now on Broadway, he recaptures with easy artlessness the range and power of his debut. One night he is a lisping, languorous biblical potentate, concealing deadly willfullness within a Bette Davis-like camp distraction, as King Herod in Oscar Wilde's Salome. The next night, in the new Chinese Coffee by the relatively unknown Ira Lewis, Pacino...
...good time to visit Chinatown is on a bright,i.e. safe, weekend afternoon when you can enjoydim sum in one of the neighborhood's numerousChinese restaurants...
Bradley supports the better-than-nothing Democratic addition of $1.45 billion to the Administration's urban-emergency-aid bill but agrees with Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, who says that even that sum represents little more than "a small down payment" toward what's necessary. "To say that you don't need a massive investment of perhaps $20 billion a year to reclaim the cities is ludicrous," says Bradley, who has his own litany of prospective family- bolstering programs. The centerpiece is a proposal that would establish a nationwide network of "15-month homes" in which poor babies and their (typically...
...PERFECT COINCIDENCE OF NEED AND ability: the Palestinians and Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi. That's why it is her face you see, her voice you hear speaking for her people, brilliantly recasting their cause as a cry for human justice. No longer can the world sum up -- and dismiss -- the Palestinians in the portrait of a stubble-bearded man wrapped in a kaffiyeh. This woman looks civilized, unthreatening, someone you'd like to invite to dinner, and she speaks with a compelling eloquence. With exquisite timing or luck or preternatural planning, she was there, this medieval-literature scholar, devoted mother, Christian...