Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drug use is rampant and sex is graphic, brutish and usually anal. We are in Trainspotting territory here. The pseudo-family of down-and-out drug-users and drifters in Shopping are--like the characters in Trainspotting, a stage version of which preceded the film (both based on Irvine Welsh's novel)--the alienated youth of Britain, uneasily poised between self-fulfillment and self-degradation, displaced, directionless and dispossessed...
...give an overpowering performance. Still, for two years, Jones has doggedly defended McVeigh, and he may have played the hand dealt him as best he could. "Before anyone should say Jones has done a bad job, you have to consider what he has to work with," says Welsh White, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh who has followed the trial. "The prosecution does have a strong case, and I think they've presented it well. Jones has to try what's available...
They also woke up to a Labour majority of such a size--419 seats--that it should prove easy to push through Tony Blair's program of giving power to Scottish and Welsh assemblies and kicking the hereditary peers out of the House of Lords. It is the biggest Tory defeat in 165 years: half the government have lost their seats, the party is virtually leaderless, the succession is wide open, and the only Tory politician who is looking calm, secure and confident is Margaret Thatcher, who campaigned loyally for John Major but privately forecast his catastrophic defeat. She will...
...much money is being raised through corporate marketing efforts that traditional philanthropists--nonprofit groups that rely on corporate giving--are beginning to feel threatened. "They worry that if companies are spending marketing dollars this way, they will be reluctant to spend philanthropic dollars as well," says Jerry Welsh of Welsh Marketing, who pioneered cause marketing at American Express in the 1980s...
...definitive novel on the chaotic collision between reader and creator remains Nabokov's Pale Fire. But Duncker, 45, who teaches at a Welsh university, turns Hallucinating Foucault into something more than an academic thriller. And the questions she leaves unanswered are of more than academic interest...