Word: sifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play to make sense of what they see and hear around them. In playing house, they copy their parents' patterns but invent a dizzying array of plots and a surprising cast of characters to embellish the scene. When children imitate what they see on TV, however, they do not sift the play through their own experience. "The boys end up imitating violence they don't even understand," says co-author Levin, an associate professor of education at Boston's Wheelock College...
...Sunday-night schedule, America's Funniest Home Videos is the newest member of Nielsen's Top Ten. The show's premise is shamelessly simple. Viewers send in funny clips they have shot with their camcorders -- everything from cute baby antics to homemade music videos. The producers sift through the best stuff, organize it around loose themes (sports, animals, weddings) and embellish it with sound effects and wisecracks from host Bob Saget...
Such incidents "put in jeopardy American diplomatic missions all over the world," complained Perry Shankle, a former president of the American Foreign Service Association. Meanwhile, the U.S. vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution censuring Washington for allowing soldiers to sift through the Nicaraguan Ambassador's residence in Panama City on Dec. 29. The U.S.'s chief U.N. delegate, Thomas Pickering, called the action an "honest mistake." Perhaps. But one might think that the U.S., whose embassies in Tehran and Islamabad have been sacked, would take more care to avoid such a mistake...