Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think our doubles really improved and now we need to turn our focus toward singles," Andrew Styperek said. "We knew that doubles was going to be a factor this fall, and the work that we put in over the past few weeks is starting...
...came to receive me in Lhasa, they said that I should tell my people not to join the rebels. It was very difficult. On one side there were the Tibetans who were at the end of their tolerance and patience. On the other, the Chinese attitude had hardened--even toward me, personally. Month by month, the possibility of a Tibetan clash with the Chinese authorities was increasing. In 1957-58, I devoted myself to academics. I finished my final examination in religious studies in 1959. By then the crisis had almost reached Lhasa. I had to leave. Accompanied only...
...government, or the still reverberating agony of one of the soldiers who witnessed the My Lai massacre, or the pathetic, "I wanna be a star" fantasies of a member of the Spur Posse (the California teens who kept score of their sexual conquests), she goes a long way toward eliminating the black and white, good and evil, male and female polarities that have riven the sexes in the past three decades...
...turmoil in Russia [WORLD, Aug. 23]: After the fall of communism, the country is gradually heading toward true democracy. But at the rate at which Prime Ministers are being replaced, it looks as if every Russian will be given a chance to hold the office. JOHN JEYARAJ Coonoor, India...
...Witch was a cunning fluke; Happy, Texas is just the kind of smart, communal comedy (The Opposite of Sex, Happiness, Election, Go) to which the mass film audience has shown serial resistance. Yet here you will find an easy charm, a cleverly unforced sense of humor and a benignity toward all its genially oddball characters that Hollywood would do well to emulate. If moviegoers skip this one, they'll be missing a real treat...