Word: ground
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...second act slows somewhat with the incorporation of the two additional characters and the plot complications they provide. In part, this is due to the nature of the script. Yew includes several poetic monologues which, though eloquently written and sincerely delivered, do not cover a lot of new ground. On the whole, the best moments of A Language of Their Own come not when the characters elegize to the audience over the successes and failures of communication with each other, but when they literally establish (and at times destroy) an intimate and mutual working language...
...candidates are somewhat like the schools from which they come. The universities also fight for the narrow middle ground...
...final score will cause joy on one side and sorrow on the other. These emotions will be real, stemming from pride in having the better or worse football team, in earning or dropping the year's bragging rights, in winning or losing the middle ground...
...Bill Clinton couldn't have stolen the other guy's high ground any better...
...Gore has made his move. In a hastily arranged - and hastily delivered - 6:45 p.m. press conference from his residence, the vice president grabbed every bit of high ground he could from the Republicans, offering not only an endgame but a peace summit, and all in time to get a live feed on all three network newscasts and lead every newspaper in the country come morning...