Tensions between Reed and Cale led to the Welshman's enforced departure before their third album, The Velvet Underground, in which Reed adopted a gentler overall tone – except for a song called Murder Mystery, in which he experimented with parallel narratives delivered simultaneously from either side of the stereo sound-picture.
Within months, officials said, President Bush had accepted almost all of Mr. Cheney's suggestions except for one: a call for every single American to be vaccinated for smallpox.
Except for repeating a call to go forward with oil and gas exploration in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a plan that Congress is not likely to approve, the Bush report offers little guide to where the administration might aim in seeking to accelerate energy development.
Except for a phone call he made on Friday to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan shortly after midnight, Mr. Obama's day was dominated by speeches like the one he gave in a hotel ballroom in Chicago, where he told a faithful crowd that he understood "it's not as trendy to be involved in the Obama campaign as it was back then".
And yet in this high-tech, special-forces sort of war, we hear no call for waves of young people to join the armed services, and local recruiters say business is about normal, except for a few calls from ex-soldiers asking about the possibility of going back.
Not many went with the Soviets except for a guy called Helmut Gröttrup, who was allegedly sick of being an assistant on von Braun's team.
Similarly, in response to a question about abortion rights, Ms. Kagan replied that "the continuing holding" of the court on matters of abortion -- except for a case involving a procedure critics call partial-birth abortion -- is that "the woman's life and the woman's health must be protected in any abortion regulation".
Except for a crow's call, all was quiet outside today as a steady snowfall began to show signs of accumulation.
Except for a layered pudding called chocolate mousse parfait with panna cotta, desserts were hits.
The intestine is straight, except for a blind outpouching called the caecum, which has, on the basis of position, been compared to the liver and pancreas of vertebrates.
