Word: sternly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...remained stranded in trees or on rooftops. In the fall of 1999 Hurricane Floyd dealt Florida and the Southeast a glancing blow that left people bailing; the rains of autumn 2000 left the same folks wondering if inundation was to be an annual ritual. In Miami in October, Hulda Stern, 93, who lived on her own with her cat Pinky, refused to leave the house in which she had lived since 1945. Some scientists warned that global warming would make the tropical storms of the future ever more intense, destructive and lethal...
...split on partisan grounds. "The most worrisome thing," says University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein, "was that the conservatives just gave Gore's lawyer a hard time, and vice versa." And the curt order the court issued Saturday showed the rift is still there. The dissenters issued a stern rebuke to the majority. By stopping the recount, Justice Stevens wrote for all four dissenters, the majority was abandoning its "venerable rules," including the well-established principle of deferring to state courts on questions of state law. The dissenters concluded that the majority had "acted unwisely"--which passes for serious...
Religion itself was nonjudgmental and easy on kooks, unlike the stern Puritanism of eastern American origins. One of the few intentionally funny paintings in the show--there are plenty that look funny but weren't meant to be--is Barse Miller's 1932 view of a downtown temple in L.A. over which floats the apparition of Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist and sexpot, flanked by figures of Venus, her lover in a straw hat, and little top-hatted putti clutching sacks of dollars like teeny refugees from a Popular Front cartoon of bosses...
...sight. Once we had anchored, our daughters made a mad dash for the upper deck in what would be the first of innumerable shrieking rides down the slide into clear 80[degree] water. Though the bow of the boat was wedged securely on sand, the water off the stern was 12 ft. deep, ideal for swimming and diving...
...though, Yuen had a collaborator as stubborn as he is gentle--determined to put on film the beautiful, impossible stunts he had dreamed of since childhood. Yuen had to play the stern adult. "Ang would say he didn't want to shoot things Wo-ping's way because it was an Ang Lee movie," Chow Yun Fat recalls. "But his ideas couldn't be worked out. Finally, he'd go to Wo-ping and say, 'Master, I'm wrong. Let's do it your way now.'" But Lee did persuade Yuen of the need for the film's bamboo scene...