Word: flourished
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...heavy prison sentences that Chinese law prescribes for members of cults, hundreds of Falun Gong members continued their almost daily protests in Tiananmen Square and elsewhere in China. Although the authorities fear the consequences of allowing a millions-strong religious sect whose leader is based in the U.S. to flourish beyond official control in China, the very form of the Falun Gong protest - quiet meditation and exercise - highlights the problem facing the authorities' attempts to crack down. "It's almost impossible to stop a movement that's spread by word of mouth and whose basic manifestation is a regime...
...inane blabber and outlandishly tragicomic situations with more angst than you could scrub out with a bar of Fight Club's Paper Street soap. After that came Mallrats and Chasing Amy, more dismally delightful chronicles of the post-yuppie malaise, all starring the director (in a requisite self-referential flourish) as the omnipresent Silent Bob. Not content with Stillman's trilogy concept, Smith has spawned an entire cottage industry with this year's forthcoming release of Dogma (with Alanis Morissette, which is Canadian for "25-year-old angst queen," in the role...
...inane blabber and outlandishly tragicomic situations with more angst than you could scrub out with a bar of Fight Club's Paper Street soap. After that came Mallrats and Chasing Amy, more dismally delightful chronicles of the post-yuppie malaise, all starring the director (in a requisite self-referential flourish) as the omnipresent Silent Bob. Not content with Stillman's trilogy concept, Smith has spawned an entire cottage industry with this year's forthcoming release of Dogma (with Alanis Morissette, which is Canadian for "25-year-old angst queen," in the role...
...parents hard-pressed by the multiple demands of careers and child rearing, arranging visits and maintaining communication between grandparents and grandchildren can be an additional chore. Why bother? There are selfish reasons. "Marriages flourish with helpful grandparents. Helping with kids--giving parents and children a break from routines--is one of the greatest gifts grandparents can give," says Kornhaber...
Pity the poor Republicans. They're doing it to themselves again. On Wednesday, with a flourish of vows from House hardhead Tom DeLay and a banner reading "Stop Robbing Social Security," the GOP launched a $2 million nationwide advertising campaign called "Stop the Raid." It's their latest big idea to finally win a budget fight with Bill Clinton: Accuse Clinton and the Democrats, over and over, of planning to raid the pension system's trust funds to pay for Big Government spending programs. With that $792 billion tax cut languishing on a far-back burner, "Stop the Raid...