Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...value of the pretty girl in today's culture. An eye-pleasing face and nice set of curves sell anything from electronic equipment to chocolate bars and everything in between. In a consumer-driven world, a decent looking dame is the hottest commodity of them all. You can't avoid knowing the value and power of young femininity, even if it is your very own young femininity. Did Monica recognize this...
...correctness would do well to enact Cornel West's prescription for improving the current political debate in this country: replacing racial reasoning with "moral reasoning." That is, Americans must resist the vilification or deification of any group of people. A desire to promote universal human decency can and should avoid degenerating into a "my-tribe-can-do-no-wrong" mentality...
Many analysts believe Iranian leaders are simply trying to intimidate the Taliban rather than overthrow it. Clearly hoping to avoid a direct clash, both will make their case in the U.N. General Assembly this week. Neither side, though, seems to be in a listening mood...
Ironically, Disney's toughest competition may not come from Antz. The studio is pushing A Bug's Life back from Nov. 20 to Nov. 25--not, according to Roth, to move another week away from Antz but to avoid going mano a mano with Paramount's Rugrats, the movie version of the popular children's TV show, which opens Nov. 20 and is expected to be a powerful contender in the intense holiday family-entertainment race. But that move to Nov. 25 puts A Bug's Life in direct competition with Universal's sequel to the popular pig movie, Babe...
...features this holiday season. Says Paramount motion-picture-group vice chairman Rob Friedman: "The movies are going to cannibalize one another. All you can hope is that parents during the holidays take their children to multiple movies." Or as any bug can tell you, the trick will be to avoid getting squashed...