Word: veined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hope for a similar production of other poetry-cycles such as Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah. With Matthews fine production of for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf as precedent, it would be a pity if nothing else was attempted in the same vein...
Asked to recall that moment, Dole opens a vein. "A lot of this stuff, cutting welfare the way some would, can really hurt children if we're not careful," he says. "We can't do that. I won't let it happen." And indeed the most severe of the so-called reforms in the House's version of the welfare bill have been tempered simply because Dole has managed to soften them...
...Black Coffee" aims to look realistically at relationships among people stalled at the lower rungs of the corporate ladder. In this vein, it usually succeeds. Matteau does not shove any moral platitudes into her characters' mouths, and she manages to make the main characters interesting in only ten short scenes...
...same vein of keeping teams honest, Harvard should use more play-action on first down. Teams routinely stack eight men on the line against the Crimson on first down, knowing full well that Hu between the tackles is coming next. The inevitable result is third and long. Ferrara says that the offense is best when it is on the attack. Sounds good...
...that seemingly every other character on television is now a white young professional who lives in Manhattan and goes out on unfortunate blind dates; bizarrely, all four of NBC's high-rated Thursday-night comedies (Friends, The Single Guy, Seinfeld and Caroline in the City) are in that vein. Fox at least had the wit to set Partners, one if its twentysomething shows, in San Francisco. But then again, its ratings stink...