Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe that doesn't matter to Bronfman: he hears his own voice sayin' it's all right. In this respect, Edgar Jr. is like the hero of one of his own movies. There is a scene in The Border where Jack Nicholson is asked why he is trying to accomplish a feat most people think is crazy. His reply: "I guess I gotta feel good about something I do." --Reported by Bernard Baumohl/New York, Patrick E. Cole and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles and Edward W. Desmond/Tokyo
...great admirer of Phil Dowds," she said. "I would love to have him working on anything I'd love to accomplish...
...government departments. This is a scale of change nobody has seen since 1933." The coming decisions and the votes will be a good deal more perilous than those of the first 100 days. The next 100 will require courage and huge political risk if the G.O.P. Representatives are to accomplish the goal they have set: the restoration of fiscal sanity and efficient government...
...little happiness in her life besides pride in her daughter. Although her Maine accent is imperfect, Bates delivers Dolores' obnoxious, caustic lines with perfect subtlety. Shifting from a tired fifty year-old to a spritely thirty year-old every other scene is not a feat many actors can accomplish, but Bates skillfully ages Dolores' body movements and psyche...
...supplement to the court's unanimous rejection of Texas killer Clarence Allen Lackey's death penalty appeal. Lackey's attorney argued that executing him after 17 years on death row amounted tocruel and unusual punishment, in part because his prolonged imprisonment had eliminated the possibility that executing him would accomplish retribution or serve as a deterrent. TIME New York correspondent Adam Cohen described the liberal judge's essay as a "bombshell" attempt to subvert aconservative high courtas states gear up for a "huge number" of executions. He notes that a growing number of conservative politicians and judges have been expanding...