Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what of those "powerful forces" who resent his winning the presidency? Is politics a contact sport, or bean bag? Of course "forces" prowl and scheme along Pennsylvania Avenue. Forewarned is forearmed, unless you believe the rules of public propriety are only for others...
...natural sympathy for the Carmichaels is sabotaged by crude and careless moviemaking. The first half of the film is a jumble of pointless anecdotes that fail to pull into a compelling narrative scheme or establish characters of any dimension. The boys squabble endlessly, humorlessly, inconsequentially, and Lindo and Woodard, both fine actors, are given only one note apiece to sound, respectively patience and impatience. In a middle passage, little Troy is sent to visit relatives in the South for no particular reason, except possibly to register Lee's disdain of smug bourgeois ways, and to contrast this with the fractiousness...
...been on the sidelines of the health-care debate for more than a year, has quietly begun to sound out Democratic elders and health-care interest groups in the event Congress can't pass legislation this summer. Bentsen has never been a fan of the grandiose Clinton scheme, and may help cut a deal if the committee chairpeople on Capitol Hill can't do it themselves...
...conversations with The Crimson, three students elaborated the frustrations and rewards of the work they put into last weekend's Arts first festival, and reflected upon the grander scheme of artistic activity at Harvard. Their testimony reveals the neglect of the arts, and the struggle some students undertake to revive them...
Should Joseph Jett be regarded as Nietzsche's Ubermensch incarnate? Jett was recently fired from his Wall Street post as head government-bond trader at Kidder Peabody, the 128-year-old investment bank. He allegedly masterminded an illegal trading scheme that will result in a $140 million loss for his company...