Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they let publicists write history?" Henry demanded loudly of no one in particular. He shook his head at the chronic inability of the industry to get it right. Once again, fictional characters were being served up as actual historic figures. Theodore Joadson, the movie's heroic black abolitionist, never drew a breath, yet the DreamWorks worksheet challenged students to analyze his relationship with the conspicuously nonfictional John Quincy Adams. Moreover, the study guide was laced with inspirational Adams "quotations," all of them made up by DreamWorks screenwriters. And then there were the follow-up activities in the learning kit, including...
With Britain behind it, the deal was nearly set: the E.U. would cut emissions their 8%, the Japanese 6% and the U.S. a nominal 7%. (Administration officials insist that the most realistic accounting scheme makes the actual cutbacks lower; what's called 7% in Kyoto, they say, is really 3% at most.) After Gore twisted Hashimoto's arm, those were the numbers that stuck. Exhausted negotiators took an additional 10 hours to iron out the details--as Japanese workers hovered impatiently, waiting to set up for a trade show at Kyoto's International Conference Hall--but the American negotiating team...
...rather than abstraction. He described the process to a friend in 1913: "The first step was to choose from nature a motif in color, and with that motif to paint from nature, the form still being objective. The second step was to apply this same principle to form, the actual dependence on the object... disappearing, and the means of expression becoming purely subjective. After working for some time in this way, I no longer observed in the old way, and...began...to remember certain sensations purely through their form and color, that is, by certain shapes, planes of light...
...repository, a museum, which contains our the actual knowledge of plant diversity and where they live," Donoghue says...
...Society For The Preservation Of History markets a high-quality collectible porcelain doll bearing the likeness of the late Princess Diana. In your "Di-ploitation Watch" item [PEOPLE, Nov. 17], you falsely claimed, without ever seeing an actual doll, that we are marketing a "cheesy Franklin Mint knockoff." The fact is our collectible doll is an original design produced by renowned artisans using the highest-quality materials. We did not copy any product of the Franklin Mint, and, in fact, we advertised this doll weeks before that firm came out with its model. Our doll is sold with an unconditional...