Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Freshman Marty Clark's match against the president's son looked like it was going the other way at first. With security forces turning away every would-be spectator except his parents and sister, Clark's support was lacking...
...natty charmer, and Germaine yearned for his affection. But, probably because she was smart and naturally skeptical, she got little from her wary father except put-downs. Germaine educated herself, went on to a successful career as a scholar, teacher and author. But the early slights -- her father's callousness and failure to confide in her -- still rankle, and she is zestfully candid about her resentments. "Yippee!" she exults when a parental lie comes to light, or "Gotcha!" Yet this glee is tempered by a deep sympathy with the narrow possibilities of her father's life and indeed with...
Dennis Peck (Richard Gere) has so many wives and children by his various marriages that he doesn't know what to do. Except steal to support them. And, for relaxation, lure other men's wives into extramarital affairs. He may be + the most thoroughly corrupt (and corrupting) cop in an overcrowded movie field. His response to a departmental investigation is to threaten to seduce the wife of head detective Raymond Avila (Andy Garcia) if Avila doesn't quash the case. No question about it, Internal Affairs is a nasty, sometimes brutal, piece of work. But Gere is hypnotic, writer Henry...
Neither external nor domestic pressure has managed to budge Botha or De Klerk from this basic position. National Party ministers say they see no point in trying to appease overseas sanctioners because nothing will satisfy them except handing over power to a black government, which Pretoria says it will never...
...Except during January...