Word: wagonful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staring at you, and when you suck in your gut like that, your eyes bug out." Not everyone understands sentiment. And as Waller wrote, "Where great passion leaves off and mawkishness begins, I'm not sure." He's still not sure, but he's headed there, leading a wagon train of believers. As of last week, Bridges had sold 4.1 million copies and had stayed on the best-seller lists for 63 weeks, 33 of those in first place. That's a lot of hankies. Steven Spielberg has bought movie rights, and Robert Redford is, as they say, being spoken...
...away to everyone but the diplomat. Jeremy Irons tries manfully, and John Lone womanfully, to give real life to the characters, but the close-ups defeat them. So do some unlikely plot points: the defendant and his accuser are put alone to undress and wrestle in a police wagon; the diplomat daubs himself as Madama Butterfly before a rapt audience -- of French convicts! Cronenberg is unlikely to find other spectators as gullible as they...
...away to everyone but the diplomat. Jeremy Irons tries manfully, and John Lone womanfully, to give real life to the characters, but the close-ups defeat them. So do some unlikely plot points: the defendant and his accuser are put alone to undress and wrestle in a police wagon; the diplomat daubs himself as Madama Butterfly before a rapt audience -- of French convicts! Cronenberg is unlikely to find other spectators as gullible as they...
...past month, as a political settlement ending decades of apartheid has inched within reach, Afrikaner and other militants have stepped up their resistance to the prospect of black majority rule. This is no mere wagon- circling exercise. This month a member of the neofascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement will stand trial for the April assassination of Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party and a popular top official of the A.N.C. Two prominent right-wing Conservative Party officials will be tried as co-conspirators in the murder. Meanwhile, Groenewald and three other former generals have come out of retirement...
When it comes to exploiting nature, humans seem to be like alcoholics: either on the wagon or on a binge. The fashionable and optimistic belief that humans can reap nature's bounty in a controlled fashion -- an ideal known as "sustainable use" that has long been the prevailing philosophy of conservationists as well as many businessmen -- is turning out to be a chimera...