Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...signatures can be. She is a big, wide, powerful woman with an amiable, unfooled expression and a finger-in-the-light-socket aurora of curly brown hair. She helped organize Greenpeace's Fish Bus Tour '98, a 30-city caravan that left Seattle in July and crossed the heartland toward a September finish on Cape Cod. Middle Americans may not harvest the ocean's bounty, but they are hearty eaters of the catch...
...from the farmers' market in St. Louis, it has been a slow day. A couple of dozen signatures, maybe a mind or two opened. Or closed. The Greenpeacers take down their banners saying STOP FACTORY FARMS! and BAN FACTORY TRAWLERS! The bus eases away from the curb and rumbles toward Lexington...
Then doctors told Lee that the list would soon have to be rejiggered and that Makenzie would be dropping toward the bottom. Reason: the Federal Government was planning to institute a new system for organ allocation. Makenzie would have to compete for an organ with not only patients in her local area but liver patients all across the country as well. She might have been one of the sickest in Iowa, but in that larger population, she would have been considered relatively well off. Fortunately, Makenzie got her transplant last...
There are viewers, sympathetic ones, who will find Beloved more admirable than involving. The focus on stern Sethe and her closed fist of a heart may put audiences at a distance; and 174 minutes is a lot of time to spend with four troubled souls moseying toward inevitability. But the popularity of pizazzy Hollywood melodrama should not mean that the only movie pace is four-on-the-floor frantic. Beloved has a pulse that beats slower because the hearts of its characters are heavier; but that pulse is evidence of complex people sifting through the ashes of a national tragedy...
...behind a tall bike messenger is a man who looks like Pat Robertson, sometimes described as the only person angrier at The American People than the Sabbath Gasbags are. He is glaring at me, and I can't help but recall that he tips off God to send hurricanes toward people he disagrees with...