Word: worded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enjoyed often here at Harvard. In fact, it would not be so far from the truth to describe the unspoken attitude toward religion in general, and Christianity in particular, as respectfully hostile. Indeed, it is with some apprehension and not a little awkwardness that I mention the "r" word at all, in any of its forms or guises. I have, of course, found ways of expressing my native Catholicism. I attend St. Paul's student Mass nearly every Sunday, abstain from eating meat during Lent, wear an ashen cross on my forehead the whole of Ash Wednesday, and even attend...
...Hollander, a close friend, said Reynolds, "rarely spoke unkindly of others, and I never heard an unkind word spoken of him, which is a rarity nowadays--a gentlemen in the truest sense of the word...
...genius of Ronin is that it slyly but quite openly acknowledges the abstract state at which the action film has arrived. The title is the Japanese word for samurai who have lost their master and must hire themselves out as amoral and dispassionate mercenaries. The script, by J.D. Zeik and Richard Weisz (a pseudonym for David Mamet), applies the term to former CIA and KGB agents who are now obliged to work for terrorists and other international thugs, with no ideology to justify their exertions. It sets a bunch of them--including Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Stellan Skarsgard...
...catching the buzz about a pill called Redux that was going to revolutionize the way Americans lose weight. Then last summer doctors noticed an alarming number of heart-valve problems in their patients who took Redux or its chemical cousin fenfluramine, prompting the recall of both drugs. Now comes word, from three studies published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, that the heart problems may not be as serious as was first feared--at least for patients who took the pills for less than three months...
...word is her bond."I told him I could always -- I would always deny it. I would always protect...