Word: excepting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...been writing TIME's People page for the past year, and while she loves the perks of the entertainment beat--movie screenings, parties, beautiful people--she has grown weary of at least one thing. "The opening chords of Entertainment Tonight drive me positively nuts," says Orecklin, who nevertheless perseveres (except on those rare occasions when Jeopardy's siren song proves too strong to ignore). For this week's People page, Orecklin reports on the breakup of Ted Turner and Jane Fonda. Although Turner is vice chairman of Time Warner, [parent of TIME's publisher] and a certified big shot...
...formula would be when it hit the small screens. Viewers in the '50s had not had time to become media savvy; at the start of the decade, less than 10% of U.S. households had a TV set, a figure that would swell to nearly 90% by 1960. Watching television, except in a few large cities, essentially meant choosing among the offerings of the three networks...
...hate it when anything is limited at Harvard," Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 wrote in an e-mail message. "It is so hard to get in to this place, all students should have access to everything without a further selection process, except of course by prerequisites and the knowledge needed to participate usefully...
With Long emerging as the new leader of the offense after the loss of Dan Clemente early in the season, Harvard is really opening its season this week. Except for one game, only Ivy League games are remaining, and a sweep this weekend would provide the Crimson with a two-game cushion in the standings...
...Earnest is essentially a man's play. It's a story about how two men, Algernon Moncrief and John Worthing, cross back and forth into real and unreal selves through playing the part of Ernest to win the love of the women they wish to marry. The female characters, except for the singularly (and in this case, literally) masculine Lady Bracknell--perhaps a little too enthusiastically portrayed by Cary McClelland '02 (his rasping, high pitched voice is at times over the top)--are lackluster characters. Certainly, Wilde blessed them with a number of witticisms...