Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exact cause of the fire is still under investigation, according to Inspector Paul Sheehan of the Cambridge Fire Investigation Department...
...internal workings of a sovereign government. Even if they succeed, the outcome may not be happy. Warns Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who heads the interim Supreme National Council: "There is a true danger after the elections that the losing parties could decide to use their guns against rivals to exact revenge." The U.N. may be needed to hold the line in Cambodia far longer than is now envisioned -- and it is an open question whether the patience and generosity of the international community will endure...
...chance, for not seizing one of those rare opportunities to shape the world for the better. From the end of World War II, the West, and especially the U.S., spent trillions to contain the Soviet Union; that money was, in effect, diverted from the domestic economies to reach this exact point in history...
Georgia O'Keefe (China Forbes) and Alfred Stieglitz (Karl Lampley) are in fact dead. While their exact metaphysical standing in the play is unclear, spiritually O'Keefe and Stieglitz stand out. They open the performance by addressing the audience, quibbling familiarly over the details of their lives...
Audrey (Faith Salie) is a 17-year-old New Yorker who loves Georgia O'Keefe paintings. Victor (Stephan Lucano) is an older man who models for Audrey's sketches. The object/objectifier relationship is a familiar theme to the audience by the time these two come on stage, but the exact connection between the two couples is curious and tenuous until the very end, where everything is tied together perhaps too well...