Word: unfolds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maybe Dole knew, maybe the polls and the consultants persuaded him, that this was too bitter a message to offer unsweetened. The children had become too spoiled to listen. That fact turned his speech, and the $74 million campaign that is about to unfold, into a study in paradox. In Verse 32, he told voters they had been insulted four years ago when they were told that material wealth was the only thing that mattered, as in "the economy, stupid." But by Verse 43, Dole was putting money on the table himself. If necessary, this father will pay his children...
Once things have started, it's just a matter of patiently sitting back for the ride and watching the horror and drama unfold at the film's confident pace. (Indeed, Schumacher recently directed "The Client," another Grisham bestseller...
...perceptive a portrait as any black writer could have produced of one of the most complex public figures of our times. Jackson has always combined the moral clarity of a prophet with the grubby opportunism of a jackleg preacher. The tendency among the millions who have watched his career unfold over the past 30 years has been to seize upon one of those facets of his character to the exclusion of the other. Frady, who has previously delved into the lives of George Wallace and Billy Graham, shows that both aspects of Jackson's personality are not only genuine...
...view his motives as purely pecuniary, one must also dismiss how astonishingly difficult the vault is, even for a master like Bubka. This is not always easy to appreciate, perhaps because there is something deceptively buoyant and elastic about the way a vault appears to unfold on TV. But to see it from 50 ft. away is to understand that the vault is a brutish thing. The poles, especially the ones Bubka uses, are as stiff as lampposts, and their throat-catching bend is the product of extraordinary speed and gristle. Bubka's virtue, or one of them, anyway...
...violent bursts and spasms. Droughts are different. They have no discernible beginning; no one wakes up of a morning, looks out a window and says, "Uh-oh, here comes a long dry spell." Droughts seem deceptively serene, no more threatening than an endless expanse of blue, cloudless sky. They unfold in slow motion, a tempo ill suited to daily headlines and TV-news reports. Covering one is like sitting around watching the grass not grow. In The Grapes of Wrath, his 1939 novel about the Depression-era Dust Bowl, John Steinbeck captured the idling, hallucinatory rhythm of drought: "The brown...