Word: ushered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tonight show is a talk show that happens to have comedy." Leno is adept with the comedy; the guests are a problem. While Leno is peerless as a monologist, his interviewing is still amateurish. He sometimes seems like a guest on his own show, polite and admiring -- an usher at the wedding, not the groom...
Most readers will immediately recognize Mickey Pearlman and Katherine Usher Henderson's new title. A Voice of One's Own, as a conscious allusion to Virginia Woolf's original masterpiece. They will quite naturally assume the book to be a sympathetic look at women in literature. And to a certain extent, their assumption will be justified. But while Woolf's work was a subtle, erudite study of the conditions which allow women to write. A Voice of One's Own: Conversations With America's Writing Women is an giddy, superficial look at the lifestyles and publications of women writers...
...partnership with citizens and local merchants to head off crime and improve the quality of life in neighborhoods. In Madison, which has been transformed from a traditional, call-driven department into a community-oriented operation in the past 20 years, police chief David Couper says female officers have helped usher in a "kinder, gentler organization." Says Couper: "Police cooperation and a willingness to report domestic abuse and sexual assaults are all up. If a person is arrested, there is more of a feeling that he will be treated right instead of getting beat up in the elevator...
...court's conservative majority is taking its cues from the Bush Administration, it promises to go much further to usher in a new era of accommodation. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr argued the Administration's position in the Lee case. He maintained that the government promotion of + religion through civic ceremonies does not violate the Constitution if coercion is not involved. Students who did not want to pray at graduation, Starr implied, could sit without joining in prayer or skip the exercises...
...really helped usher in the age of the neonatal intensive care unit," he says. "She and others have seen the number of infant deaths fall...