Word: tad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elliott, initially a tad bland as the "dove"-like American heiress, grows on you: though she never quite captures Milly's intense vitality and will to live, in her final scenes her placidity, affecting without being treacly, is vested with surprising grace. Roache (last seen in the lead role of the controversial Priest) delivers a convincing and finely nuanced performance as the attractive and passionate but indecisive lover who's neither quite strong nor quite weak enough to be a true...
...sees it, four main issues in the church today "strain reason as well as faith": clerical celibacy, women priests, contraception, and the indissolubility of marriage. He accepts Rome's position on all four, although he is troubled by the reasoning behind the ban on birth control, hopes for a tad more flexibility on remarriage after divorce, and sees no doctrinal barrier to the eventuality of a married priesthood (which exists in the church's Eastern rite...
...times when 90 is prudent," he says. What more could a man ask? (At night, the limit is 65.) Governor Marc Racicot, for one, wants a new speed limit, but doesn't expect it to happen anytime soon. Montanans are not nut-case antigovernment types, he says, a tad sensitive about the militia thing that captured so many headlines. But they want stronger evidence of a link between driving like a maniac and dying like...
Joanna, an employee at TAD Incorporated Temporary Contract Services on 639 Mass Ave. who didn't want her last name to be printed, said she used to buy "the things you put on the bottom of chairs to prevent their legs from scratching up the floor" at Woolworth...
...Dorrie. He meets and marries Beth, an aspiring academic who later leaves him and their marriage for a prestigious post in London. In 1996, Larry falls into a coma for 22 days but recovers fully. A year later, he and his girlfriend Charlotte give a party to which, a tad improbably, both of Larry's ex-wives wind up being invited...