Word: exceptionality
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...sure she is not recognized by maître d's and waiters, Sheraton never makes reservations in her own name. She also declines to be photographed fullface. "So I don't fight back, except of course in my reviews." But critics, Sheraton believes, whether of food or fashion, movies or books, "are willing to put up with the bad for the privilege of doing what they relish for a living...
...when the world's largest airliner smashes into a mountain, there is no escape, except for the very few--four this time--favored by the whims of fate. That was tragically clear last week as the helicopters carried body after body, wrapped in bright blankets, down from the smoldering wreckage on Mount Osutaka. --By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Yukinori Ishikawa/Fujioka and Edwin M. Reingold/Tokyo
...that fame, all of a sudden. What was it all about? Even back then, Bruce Springsteen was too smart to try to find out. Except one time...
Your article "Redefining the American Dilemma" is on point. Blacks have always been pluralistic, and there has always been debate about how best to solve our problems. In recent years, however, publications like yours have ignored all opinions expressed by blacks except those deemed to be some sort of official "black view." Such individuals as Tom Sowell were forced into confrontational defenses of their well-researched and articulate conclusions, which differed from the media's general notion of the black view. If nothing more, you may be waking up to the reality that thinking by black individuals is no more...
...stereotype of the lazy Negro, Perry brought an unsuccessful $3 million defamation suit. "I had to defy a law that said Negroes were supposed to be inferior," he said. "I was a star--the first Negro movie star--when the black man couldn't get work in the movies except playing shoeshine boys...