Word: segmenting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...structured around the transformation of Cantwell from her small-town-Rhode-Island-reared self, to a University of Connecticut graduate thrust into the roar of a city that in 1953 welcomed her with open arms. Cantwell begins each section of the book with a new apartment, and a new segment of her New York existence...
...about male sexual pursuit, Xscape shows us things from the female perspective. Several of these songs are about women who have been wronged and yet foolishly go back to their men. On the ballad Love's a Funny Thing, the lyrics sound like a transcript from a Ricki Lake segment: "Every time I fall I make myself believe that you are changing and someday the sun will shine...
...testing the Cuban leader's willingness to make real changes at home in return for a relaxation of the 33-year-old U.S. trade and travel embargo. Menoyo is convinced that more and more Cuban Americans are accepting, reluctantly, the idea of negotiation with Castro. The largest segment of exile opinion is still represented by Jorge Mas Canosa and his Cuban-American National Foundation, a ferociously anti-Castro organization that claims 200,000 members. But the hard line is no longer imposed as it was in the 1980s, when more than a dozen terrorist bombs were aimed at exiles...
Pageant organizers will let viewers call in during the three-hour live telecast Sept. 16 and decide whether the swimsuit segment should continue...
...some people it is their connections to their family and to their friends that save them from the alienation that others must bear. And maybe for many others, the only way to keep one's wits is to retreat from the larger picture and enter a more comprehensible segment. Maybe that's what leads so many of us to look for a place where everybody knows your name, or lacking that, to Judge Ito's courtroom--where you're sure to know everybody's name even if you're not so sure what's in the Mystery Envelope...