Word: excepting
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...York Times Magazine, it's perfectly natural that people are getting richer and feeling poorer. Students don't want to make $50,000 a year, or $100,000 or $250,000. They want to make just a little bit more than all their friends. It's competition, baby--except it's not for foraging space or hunting territory, it's for the big bucks. Frank cites H.L. Mencken's definition of a wealthy man: "one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband." In other words, we aren't greedy, we're just impressionable. Despite...
...reject the political entirely," she said, paraphrasing the preface to her new collection. "Except at moments like this, when it's life and death and everything becomes political. Even a little girl hiding in an attic can become political...
...John, Paul, George and Ringo. Just look at the comedy-musical A Hard Day's Night (1964), from the dawn of Beatlemania: the footage is black and white, the lads are all in proper-looking suits, their hair cut just below their ears, their faces bright and clean shaven (except for McCartney's fake goatee in the opening scene). Then screen the edgier Let It Be (1970), the documentary that recorded the Fab Four's final days: the film is in gritty color, and the music is tougher. The lads are now men, their hair grown down to their shoulders...
...Bundy supported aerial attacks on North Vietnam in 1965 but reluctantly backed the large-scale introduction of U.S. troops. Later he was critical of Henry Kissinger's secretive attempts to disentangle America from the war. "Everyone in the State Department is trying to knife me in the back, except for Bill Bundy," Kissinger said after becoming Nixon's National Security Adviser. "He is still enough of a gentleman to knife me in the chest...
...number of kids, while difficult to track exactly, is relatively small. People who consider themselves vegetarians make up only about 6% of the general population, and what constitutes vegetarianism varies (see box). Those who cut out red meat--or eschew everything animal except eggs and dairy--far exceed the number of strict vegans, who eat no animal products...