Word: upholds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aisle clamoring for a deadline to U.S. involvement, which Defense Department officials today said would run at least through December. Democrats are drafting legislation to authorize the military action till February or March, and Republicans are poised to call tomorrow for an immediate debate on the scope of Operation Uphold Democracy...
...undergraduate members of the fly Club will decide in the next few weeks whether to uphold their vote last year and become the first of Harvard's nine final clubs to admit women into their fall punch...
...shamelessly traditional it's almost radical. While elsewhere in pop, bands like Nine Inch Nails scream such lyrics as "I want to f -- -- -- you like an animal," the Boyz uphold a quaint gentlemanliness. Women aren't objects of lust; they are cherished. "Girl, your wish is my command/ I'll submit to your demands," go the lyrics to I'll Make Love II You. Monogamy is celebrated. "Wanna build a new life," goes On Bended Knee. "Gonna make you my wife/ Raise a family." Boyz II Men has found a niche by seeming to be blissfully unaware of its cultural...
...manacled prisoner came face-to-face with justice for the first time, he strove to uphold the swaggering image he had so carefully cultivated through decades of actual and exaggerated derring-do. "This man is a star," Carlos said by way of greeting the investigating magistrate, Jean-Louis Bruguiere, in his bunker-like quarters at the Palais de Justice. "We are both professionals. We'll get along together." Gesturing toward the assault rifles carried by his four police escorts, Carlos bantered, "Ah! The FA-MAS. We had those in Lebanon. They're good." Though it was a display of insouciance...
...here? A lost-boy trend? A commercial coincidence, based on such earlier successes with this theme as the Home Alone pictures, Terminator 2 and most of Steven Spielberg's oeuvre? An attempt by sly Hollywood to suggest that the family values it has but recently renewed its oath to uphold and defend are actually missing in much of America? Or -- worst-case scenario -- an effort to subvert those values right in the middle of movies that are marketed and rated as family entertainment...