Word: exception
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Marina had moved into our neighborhood of Austin a few years ago with her husband and two children. As we ran, I learned from my mother that the Justices had divorced the previous spring and Marina now lived alone, except for a tenant on the top floor of the mansion and frequent visits from her children. So we were only able to get her next-door neighbor, George, and her neighbor from across the street, who were about to carpool to work together...
...Nothing, except that liberal activist judges have often made it extremely difficult to defend even the most reasonable selection criteria. As a result, many employers institute racial and sex quotas to avert the risk of costly litigation. No adverse impact, no complaints. No complaints, no litigation. Warped interpretations of Griggs, which the Kennedy bill restores, could toss common standards of competence, intelligence and hard work out the window...
...Hollywood nothing lasts long -- except the work. Lynch has earned his 15 minutes of celebrity with 15 years of the strangest characters and most hallucinogenic images an American filmmaker ever committed to celluloid. His early career traced a paradigmatic arc of hotshot movie eminence, from a $20,000 underground classic (Eraserhead in 1977) to a $5 million Oscar nominee (The Elephant Man in 1980) to a $50 million sci-fi dud (Dune in 1984). Each film had segments of bafflement and spectral beauty. But Hollywood, looking at the escalating price tags and plummeting ticket sales, wrote the director...
...hair. Awesome is a word I would use to describe the Grand Canyon -- not the latest Jon Bon Jovi album, which is, like, totally awesome to my young classmates. Still, some - collegespeak can be surprisingly descriptive. "Yeah, it was great," one student says of his summer vacation in Paris. "Except I felt like a total Piltdown when I tried to order food." I know exactly what he means...
...tried as hard as I could to make sure nothing about me--not my accent, not my political beliefs, not my musical taste, not my style of dress--could possibly betray me as Southern. In my mind, the entire Northeast was a cosmopolitan Manhattan and the entire South (except, of course, for my neighborhood) was a 1980s-era Mayberry...