Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...China connection isn't behind Clinton's decision, what is? The answer may be classic Clinton--another case in which the President decided that the correct global policy dovetailed with his domestic political needs. And what's most surprising is that the risk--massive political embarrassment--was spelled out for him in black-and-white, and he chose to ignore it. Here's what happened...
...asks where I'm from, and, incredibly, in no time at all we're knee-deep in small talk. Soon it becomes apparent that he thinks I'm a tourist, but it's not worth interrupting the flow of our conversation to correct his impression...
According to Gary H. Manchester, a prominentplastic surgeon in San Diego who graduated fromHarvard Medical School in 1964, plastic surgeryshould be used to correct defects in collegestudents only if the potential patient feelsespecially self-conscious about his or herappearance...
...happened again just a couple of months ago, when a guru in Texas told his followers that on the evening of March 31, God would announce his arrival on Channel 18. This prediction was ridiculous on many counts--why would God choose cable, for example? This prophet was correct, however, in that TV will be the medium of the apocalypse; he just had the wrong listing. The end of the world will come on May 14, 1998, at 9:59:59 p.m. (E.T.) on NBC, when the last second of the last episode of Seinfeld is broadcast. (On the West...
Doubtless Redford believes in the ideals that animate this movie--as who among us does not? But the very fact that he is so well known and widely applauded for his many good, politically and artistically correct works offscreen helps make the movie seem self-regarding, self-righteous, even smug. There was once something of the wicked kid in Redford's screen character, and one fondly imagined that he would someday grow up to be, if not a dirty old man, then a subversive and obstreperous one. Certainly we never guessed he'd end up a rustic bore like...