Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dwarf and overshadow the latters creativity. Sometimes we regret our decisions, like when the National Football League dropped its failed experiment with instant replay. Other times, we seem overtaken by those choices, as in a world where live operators seem to have been totally and permanently replaced by monstrous touch-tone information menus...
...will never forget holding her hand and praying over her listless body while she suddenly opened her eyes and looked around the room. She said nothing as her heart stopped beating, but squeezed my hand tightly as she slipped the surly bounds of earth to touch the face...
...that he himself had emphasized when he paid tribute to black golf pioneers Teddy Rhoades, Charlie Sifford and Lee Elder in his graceful victory speech. In a mirror image of Zoeller's constricted views, some blacks saw Woods' assertion of a multiracial identity as a sellout that could touch off an epidemic of "passing." Arthur Fletcher, a black member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, testified at a 1993 congressional hearing devoted to whether a new, "multiracial" category should be added to U.S. Census forms that "I can see a whole host of light-skinned black Americans running...
...bejesus out of her brain circuitry, or did I just mutter unintelligibly, "Where the hell did she throw the bottle now?" At this point, it isn't even easy to remember precisely what I said to my kids when they were teenagers. Just last month I got in touch with both of my daughters to make sure we'd remembered to tell them not to join any cults...
...remains the same in both acts, a well-constructed, quite impressively realistic representation of the interior of a wealthy contemporary home. There are plenty of doors for the various characters to rush in and out of, and open and shut behind them. And again, the occasional slyly humorous touch: Lenny, describing his neck as "stretched out and over to one side, like a Modigliani painting," looks up to see...a Modigliani painting...