Word: telling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just as important, he had the proper training facilities. There was a swimming pool his father could throw him into. Instead of having his parents tell him to go outside and play in the streets where drugs and other troubles lurk, he had a swimming pool in which to train...
During the speech Marius explained what constitutes plagiarism, how it can be avoided and where to get help. Marius filled the address with anecdotes, but still had to break in at one point to tell an unruly audience to remember they were freshman in college, not high school...
...should emphasize that it's a fine sauce, with a touch of burn and two touches of subtelty. If it were an orchestra, though, I'd tell this sauce to add some drums and trumpets. I imagine ginger and garlic as the culinary instruments. I would try to retain the expert, greaseless stir-frying...
...only five points down on the Japanese." Old, frail, evil Don Corrado hits on the up-to- date notion of getting out of street crime and franchising it to black, Hispanic and Oriental gangs, thus achieving really big bucks and respectability. But instead of telling the story, Condon endlessly tells about it. Characters do not take on their own faces or voices, and when the lowbrow Partanna is made to say, "Ask not for whom the bell tolls, Pop. Shoot the bell ringer," it sounds phony. That's not Charley; it's Condon stopping the action to tell one more...
...main reason: growing numbers of women are using crack, the cheap and readily available purified form of cocaine that plagues America's inner cities and has spread into middle-class suburbs. Says Dr. Richard Fulroth, a Stanford University neonatologist: "The women have tears streaming down their cheeks when they tell me, 'In the back of my mind I knew I was hurting my baby, but in the front of it, I needed more rocks...