Word: tells
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...that followed, I became more familiar with the community, its mores and its way of life. In the evenings, my friends John and Willy would take me hunting for kangaroo, and Willy, who at 14 was already the tribe's witchdoctor, would point out features of the landscape and tell me the tribal legends about each of them...
...Heiress (1949). A once-bitten, twice-shy Olivia De Havilland as the target of Montgomery Clift?s advances -- couldn?t she tell from the mustache? William Wyler got a great turn from De Havilland and strikes a poignant blow for spinsters everywhere...
WASHINGTON: While impeachment articles against President Clinton are being drafted, there seems to be some dispute in the investigation that brought them about. Ken Starr and his deputies had slightly different stories to tell when they finally hit what Starr had earlier derided as "the talk-show circuit" Wednesday. Asked about the first, crucial hours when his office held Monica Lewinsky without an attorney, the independent counsel told ABC's Diane Sawyer "it was fair and right to go to someone who is in the midst of a very serious thing." But Starr deputy Robert Bittman said his boss...
...sounds like a stretch to blame America's educational problems on what is essentially a literary and cultural movement, that's because it is. Paglia's assertion that humanities professors at Harvard are "trying to take away meaning, tell students it's all meaningless"--thus producing that "gnome" effect--simply isn't true. A small fraction of our humanities classes deal with literature produced in the second half of this century, much of which has come to be labeled "postmodern." The aim of these classes, like any others, is to give students a way of understanding and appreciating the material...
...Tell that to Frederick Warren-Boulton, a leading economist and current Justice Department witness. Warren-Boulton offered what may well become the feds' counter-spin: That Microsoft's exclusive contracts and illegal monopoly leverage drove its bruised browser rivals into the arms of AOL. Meanwhile, a more cultural argument was being made on bulletin boards across the Internet -- that the mainstream will always appropriate successful companies that operate on the fringe. "The battle is over," wrote one AOL-phile. "AOL wins...