Word: treads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Klerk has been, for the most part, an unsung hero, forced to tread a fine line between National Party voters still committed to the maintenance of apartheid, and ANC members, concerned that the reform process will be stalled. He has had a number of factors stacked against him in his crusade...
Where Angels Fear to Tread...
...most moving moment of the season's second E.M. Forster film, Where Angels Fear to Tread, comes at the very end. In the closing credits, a note appears: "Filmed entirely on location in Rome, and in the towns of San Gimignano, Siena, Montepulciano and Cuna in Tuscany, and in Sussex and London, England...
Nonetheless, Scully does not tread wearily through the book's itinerary (ancient Greek and Roman architecture, the Gothic cathedrals of France, Renaissance Florence, Versailles, Vaux-le-Vicomte, etc...); rather, he takes to it with abandon, incorporating a sensitivity to the literary and cultural context that surrounds the buildings he studies, and using a sparkling rhetorical style that enlivens a subject liable to be wearied by either dense technical jargon or the purple prose of art speak...
...takes to enter New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary on Feb. 18 is nerve and a $1,000 filing fee. Among the record 62 candidates who have rushed in where Mario Cuomo feared to tread...