Example sentences for: emmett

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  • What we have added is a new page called Pundit Links, with links to the most recent columns by nearly every major opinionmeister currently available on the Web, ranging alphabetically from Russell Baker to George Will, and ideologically from Molly Ivins to--oh, R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., we suppose.

  • Woody Allen's documentary-style film about fictional '30s jazz guitarist Emmett Ray (played by Sean Penn) is "a likable, lively little ditty" (David Ansen, Newsweek ) that doesn't add up to much, but makes for a welcome change of pace from Allen's recent work.

  • Le Monde also devoted a whole page to an article titled "The Clinton Haters' Club" about a group of right-wingers--including Grover Norquist Jr., Arianna Huffington, R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., and the British journalist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, "one of the heroes of the Clinton haters"--who met once a week for dinner in a private room of La Brasserie in Washington, D.C., to "plot" against the president.

  • Fears of black sexuality have been responsible for some of the most notorious incidents of anti-black violence and persecution, from the Scottsboro Boys to Emmett Till.

  • The cover package reviews the century's top 10 crimes, including the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of seven mobsters by Al Capone's henchman; the brutal 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till , which galvanized support for the civil rights movement; and the Manson family rampage , which ended the social experimentation of the '60s on a sour note.


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