Word: exaction
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...listener is his wife Emma (as in Bovary?). The subject under discussion is his best friend, who he has just discovered has been having an affair with Emma these many years. It is not bitterness that dictates Robert's tone. He is, as he says, telling the exact truth. For he is the sort of modern man, up on the literature (and the movies and the plays), who expects husbands and wives to be unfaithful but is really quite shocked to find that his best friend is cheating...
Music is a form of spiritual carbon dating. If one came of age in 1938, then Artie Shaw's version of Begin the Beguine might be the signature he went by, the sound that would date his soul like the exact ring on a redwood. A few years earlier, it might have been Hoagy Carmichael doing Stardust...
Although committee members interviewed this week refused to comment on the exact nature of the recommendations, they are taking into account proposals from student drama organizations and the ART itself...
...cold in the O.R. that when the surgeon cuts into a patient, steam rises from the body, and the surgeon will warm his hands over the open wound.' In the last show I wrote and directed, 'The Interview,' I had Father Mulcahy use those exact words when he was asked if the war had changed...
...history decided otherwise, and the people of Lyon, after almost forty years of frustration, have every right to exact revenge. Barbie's trial may take more than a year to prepare and the harshest possible verdict would be life imprisonment, since France abolished the death penalty in 1981. Yet how can one every pay enough for crime against humanity, for the thousands uprooted from their homes and sent by the trainload to Auschwitz and other camps? As Jacques Block, President of the Jewish Federation of Lyon, put it: "The crimes of this man are such that there is no penalty...