Word: taint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need bother mocking or pitying the Irish; they do such a good job of it themselves. Frank McCourt beautifully juggled contempt and sympathy in his memoir of growing up poor and wet in Limerick in the '30s and '40s, before squandering the goodwill he had accrued with the taint of 'Tis (it'll be a while before that sour screed is filmed). Parker, who did right by the Irish in The Commitments, has a go at the impossible task of adapting Angela's Ashes and trying to satisfy all those who loved the book so much that McCourt's painful...
Gore was easy to talk to and very approachable. "I always liked him very much," Rosenblatt recalls, describing him as staid and a bit stiff--qualities that Gore is often criticized for today. "It was interesting that those same qualities which one admires without taint or adulteration as a young man are sometimes questioned as an older...
...appeals court's decision was a restricted one that does not seem likely to become a widely cited precedent. The court did not rule that reporting in the public interest puts reporters above the law, nor did it find that illegitimate tactics irreparably taint true information...
...same bygone resident fulfills his brilliant plan and flies the world-famous New York Rangers in to face off, in what may be the ultimate lopsided competition, against the team from Mystery. Television and technology inundate the town, which is not even ready for the superchain Pricemart to taint the citizens, as the movie follows the hilarious lives of the teammates whose days jobs include a grocery store clerk, the town sheriff and a high school jock. Who knew that hockey could...
...agreed to increase its payment in lieu of taxes to the city by $12 million. But the fact remains that by covering up its purchases, even in order to protect itself from inflated real estate prices, Harvard acquired its land in an underhanded manner, a move that will likely taint town-gown relations for years to come...