Word: sayed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...keep our prosperity going," and that Bradley "wants to blow the whole surplus" on an "unwise" plan, and then he stuck the knife in further: "I think he's a genuinely good person." Ouch. Gore was practicing an age-old Southern put-down: if you're going to say something snide in polite society, sprinkle a little sugar on it for extra effect...
...wife is insulted by it. "You're beautiful! Why do they say that?" In the press, if people need a hook they need a hook, and I could try to sway them away from that and then I'd spend 15 minutes trying to describe how good-looking I am, and that's not exactly...
...Schama is particularly careful, sometimes even painfully self-conscious, of the use of the term "genius"-"the G-word," as he calls it-although Schama does say that we "intuitively" call Rembrandt a genius. Nevertheless, Schama clearly wishes his book to be a tribute to Rembrandt. He makes no claim to objectivity in his scholarship, and he does not hesitate to call this or that painting "sensational." He jealously defends Rembrandt against recent scholars' charges that he was a pawn of his patrons or the product of the social conditions...
...that response, something big needs to happen. Nothing in these debates fits that description," he added. That's why Americans say it's been a boring and uninformative stretch of the campaign, despite the debates...
...actors in Snow Falling On Cedars are left with remarkably little to say--particularly the two leads, who are left with the difficult task of posing silently for Hicks's long montages. Hawke and Kudoh are both admirably restrained for the most part, and they do a creditable job in their scenes together. Max Von Sydow does a marvelous turn as decrepit defense attorney Nels Gudmundsson, as do Shepard and Ako as the parents of the young lovers. Also, Max Wright (as a doddering coroner) and Celia Weston (as the righteously bigoted mother of the deceased) deserve special mention...