Word: stack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...labored, but in Peter Hall's brilliant production -- complete with stylized masked figures pantomiming the mythological background -- the action it encompasses builds to a fierce momentum. Pennington and particularly Dench perform with such conviction that one forgets there is anything preposterous about their characters. This time Shaffer does not stack the deck in his perennial intellect-ecstasy debate but leaves the outcome ambiguous. In a gory, disturbing finale, both Edward and Helen must plumb, in their ways, the terrible meaning of the Perseus legend: that the slayer of the Gorgon becomes the thing he or she destroys...
...aware of the quality-vs.-coverage debates," says Galston, "of the need to extend hours and concentrate funds, and I know all about the 'fade-out' phenomenon. On my second day on the job I sent out an all-points bulletin to the academic community, and I have a stack of reports on my desk about 18 inches high, most of which I've read. There's a general consensus that pouring old wine into the same bottles is the wrong way to go. I hope we'll get all the interested parties around the same table to generate...
Comic: Watch it, you're starting to get on my nerves! I don't want to blow my stack; I hear that anger is bad for your heart...
...blisters began to form. Upstairs, amid a growing mound of coffee cups, pizza boxes from Listrani's and burn bags filled with discarded drafts, the team was trying to compress Clinton's huge vision for America into a size-10 Treasury. By dawn Wednesday, there was a crisp stack of pages on Clinton's desk to be torn apart...
...future for the temporary convenience of the present," Reagan said. "To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political and economic upheavals." The trend did not continue -- it accelerated, doubling the $1 trillion debt that he deplored, then doubling it again. Reagan's 67-mile-high stack of $1,000 bills, Clinton said, now reached up 267 miles. By the end of his speech, Clinton had grabbed hold of all that Reagan professed, wrapped it in burlap and cast it aside...