Word: except
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Except for the few who live off-campus or have grown up near the square, we all return to the 02138 zip code. Yet we rarely allow ourselves time to react to the Square as we react to our hometowns...
...reactivation of the draft should be accompanied by a requirement (statutory in the first instance, and thereafter, as soon as possible, incorporated in a constitutional amendment) that drafted personnel shall not be committed to combat except in a time of declared war or in the event of armed attack upon or forcible occupation of United States territory...
...plot twists and the last-minute injection of a demon who seems to have drifted in, half-baked, from The Exorcist. The psychological drama is forfeited by the handling of the central character. Though Pacino is in sensitive, even witty, form, he just does not have enough to do. Except for a few costume changes and some brief, cryptic conversations with his girlfriend (Karen Allen), his personality transformation is left undramatized. There are no scenes that clearly show Burns' descent into a personal hell or his growing sexual ambivalence. Such sequences would have been tough to write and trying...
...also outlive scandals, inflation and the dye jobs on their M.C.s' hair. Currently there are 30 hours of game shows on the networks' weekly daytime schedules, not to mention the countless hours of syndicated games broadcast in the early evening. Someone must be watching-and why not? Except for news, sports events and the Tonight show, game shows are just about the only examples of pure, spontaneous television left on the air. As Monty Hall says in Maxene Fabe's definitive new history, TV Game Shows! (Doubleday/Dolphin; $8.95), "You can learn more about America by watching...
Stark naked, he was striding through the cordite stench with his head held high and his arms swinging. His body shone white in the brilliant light of the flare, except for what appeared to be a glistening crimson sash that ran from one shoulder down one thigh and dripped from his lifted foot...