Word: exception
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...many people, body building is a bizarre pseudo sport: part weight lifting, part boylesque. It stands in that curious crossroads of exhibition and self-flagellation where Narcissus meets the Nautilus. If Schwarzenegger really thought this trail would lead to Hollywood, he would have to blaze it himself. Except for Steve Reeves, the Hercules of cut-rate '60s epics, few body builders had been able to work up so much as a sweat in pictures...
...authorities may have also simply decided that enough time has passed since the Tiananmen crackdown so the risk of rousing large-scale protests is minimal. Except for a few notices posted outside the Beijing Intermediate People's Court, the prosecutions have so far proceeded with little official fanfare. The government may be calculating that concern for the detainees will eventually fade, as it did for Wei Jingsheng, 40, an activist during the Democracy Wall movement of 1978-79, who is marking his 12th year behind bars...
SMITH tries, when dealing with theinnovations and reforms, to narrate and providecolor rather than to judge. Being Smith, he hasaccess to practically everyone except for the verytop of Soviet leadership, and he is an adeptinterviewer, gleaning inner motives and fears fromevery source...
...Except it's worse. This time, Mom and Dad aren't around to hold your hand. This time, you'll have to make your own plane reservations. This time, you'll have to wake yourself up for the 5 a.m. plane, arrange ground transportation to the medical school campus, and, of course, make sure you have clean clothes for the interview...
...what do you think about Yale Medical School?" demanded one interviewer. A reasonable question, except that he was not from Yale Medical School. For 30 harrowing minutes, I tried to explain my ignorance of my interviewer's beloved alma mater. Finally, he asked me if I had any questions. I asked him what he thought about the medical campus I was visiting...