Word: acted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...demanding action before Memorial Day as a tribute to the victims in Littleton. Emerging from a Friday meeting with the President, in which they coordinated their gun-control strategy, House Democrats nearly climbed over one another to express their indignation. "How many people have to die before Congress can act?" demanded New York's Nita Lowey. Republicans are adamant that they will not be budged off their schedule. Isn't this how it all started...
...belonged was that of adolescent evangelicalism. One need attend only one youth gathering to collect an anthology of similar stories: a lost teen dabbles in drugs and witchcraft, finally comes to Jesus and joins a mission to gang members. The difference in Cassie's case was the remarkable act of Christian witness that followed. Some reports have her simply answering yes when the Columbine gunman asked if she believed in God; others record the reply, "There is a God, and you need to follow along God's path." In either case, he murdered her; and in her commitment teens...
...Weddings? There have been a few films, either financial flops, like Extreme Measures; mistakes, like Nine Months; or period dramas more memorable for the performances of others, like Sense and Sensibility. Oh, and there was his most unforgettable role of all--international whipping boy of 1995 after that "lewd act" with a certain Miss Divine Brown in a BMW off Sunset Boulevard...
...Elizabeth," says Grant. "They say, 'My name's Uncle Mikey, if there's anything I can do for you, anywhere in the world, you come to me.' Some of these tabloid editors here should be looking over their shoulders." And the role lets Grant hone his dazed-and-confused act. While he disputes that he has been typecast, he concedes that he is looking forward to working on the new Woody Allen film in July, in which he gets to play a villain...
...model themselves on crimes, both real and fictional, that grab a lot of attention. When the movie Money Train came out a few years ago, with a scene of flammable liquid being squirted into a New York City token booth and set on fire, real-life robbers duplicated the act and badly burned a token clerk. After the TV movie The Burning Bed aired in 1984, with Farrah Fawcett playing a battered wife who set her ex-husband on fire, a viewer in Milwaukee poured gasoline on his wife and burned her to death...