Word: except
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Jays sprinted to the head of the A.L. East pack this spring. The 19-3 thrashing of the Yanks, the two-touchdown 24-10 win over the Orioles. But as the 1980 baseball season enters its stretch drive, long-suffering Jays lovers have nothing to complain about, except perhaps the dearth of beer...
Sullivan said last night that he would oppose all the additions except the recommended additional staff for the rent control board...
...prospect that Yugoslav would live up to Tito's promise, first voiced at a press conference in 1951: "Every foot of our land is saturated in blood but if it is necessary, we will saturate it again, and it will remain ours. Yugoslavia will never again be conquered, except over the dead bodies of its peoples...
...social function but to privacy: "Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake. That is why it has been an error to replace the protection of walls with today's intemperate use of enormous glass windows." Many of his devices serve absolutely no function except visual delight; he thinks nothing of erecting a free standing wall simply to catch the shadow of a nearby tree. Where others speak of views, Barragán celebrates the walled garden. Says he: "A landscape that is held and framed with a proper foreground is worth double." He would like...
...Head over Heels, and her short stories have been collected in two books, Distortions (1976) and Secrets and Surprises (1979). Beattie, 32, writes with quiet wit and subdued sympathy about the states of mind that have become the clichés of middle-class malaise. One need not elaborate, except to say that after 30 years of postwar fiction, American writers appear to have reversed Tolstoy's happy-family dictum. It now appears that all unhappy families are alike...