Word: absented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chechnya, a peace treaty with Russia has been signed, but skirmishes continue--the bloodshed has not ended with political accord. In Sergei Bodrov's film, "Prisoner of the Mountains," politics as usual leads to a horrific, numbing climax as absent-minded doctors send adolescents to war and tanks roll down hilly roads too beautiful for bloodshed. Based on the Leo Tolstoy short story, "Caucasian Captive," "Prisoner of the Mountains" brings the people, not the politics, of war to the dramatic forefront, capturing the paralysis and pain felt by families caught in the middle...
Even his critics do not deny that Wellstone is a man of principle. And as he discusses his agenda, you can't help notice that Wellstone is talking with an uncalculated frankness that is absent from mainstream political debate. He stresses the fact that the answers to our problems will not come easily and concedes that most of them are not even known. He speaks of his political enemies with respect. He refuses an invitation to blast the media. He goes out of his way to point to the limits of his own analysis...
However, the outside shooting has often been noticeably absent. Against Lehigh, for instance, Harvard only hit 10 out of 36 shots in the first half as the two teams waddled to a 27-27 halftime tie. On the season, the Crimson's two leading scorers are big men (Snowden and senior Chris Grancio), and besides sophomore point guard Tim Hill, no one else averages more than eight points a game...
...frozen Charles. A phone call from BU captain Bill Pierce to Harvard captain Ashlin Halfnight, from BC captain Joe Harney to Northeastern captain Rick Shuhwerk. A plan to meet on the river ice and play out the opening round of the Beanpot tournament, absent the media and Fleet-Center crowd...
...that long-term cause of World War I, historians are fairly well-agreed that Chris O'Donnell is not Ernest Hemingway. "In Love and War" has arrived, for better or worse, as an acceptable romance story, set against a beautifully done backdrop of a world war. But notably absent from this picture is any bona fide sense of Hemingway, as O'Donnell and Sandra Bullock with somewhat disturbing success dilute and plain-vanilla the story into submission...