Word: classically
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...idea that selective shots of our lives are representative isn't new. It's the basis for comic books, episodic TV shows and the classic celluloid biography. Highlight a couple of key points and get to the punchline, and the rest--the actions that make our words human-- follow nicely behind...
DIED. VICKI SUE ROBINSON, 46, disco diva whose Turn the Beat Around is a dance classic; of cancer; in Wilton, Conn...
...young teen who seemed to have it all. Although Kufrovich eventually spent 18 months in jail, Tarbox remained racked with guilt about turning him in. It was only her even stronger guilt over not telling the truth that led her to admit to the molestation. In a classic case of blaming the victim, Tarbox was then characterized by her family, friends and town as a promiscuous teen looking for trouble. In the book, she quotes her elder sister as saying, "I'm really disgusted with you. You've ruined our family. You've ruined our lives...
...Williams' soul, look at all the evidence. There was the new mayor's Barry-like acceptance of a white official's resignation after he came under fire for using the word niggardly. There's the mess those telecommunications companies have made of our downtown streets with the city, in classic Barry mode, not even charging them a reasonable fee to repair the damage. And there's the unsettling fact that after a decade of declines in the homicide rate, we've had 86 killings in the first 116 days of this year. At that accelerated pace, we could slip back...
...Bloke is a certain kind of Australian or New Zealand male. (We have other kinds, such as Rupert Murdoch, but we prefer to call them emigres.) The classic Bloke is not a voluble beast. His speech patterns are best described as infrequent but colorful. Mel Gibson once described a director as "slick as eel snot." And this was a director he liked. Crowe's rock band is called 30 Odd Foot of Grunts...