Word: afar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...educational background of families has afar stronger correlation to student achievementthan any equalizing effect from schools," saidBruce Fuller, associate professor of education andco-director of the study...
...center of the fairy tale a prince (Peter Gallagher), not the customary princess, lies sleeping. He's in a coma, having been saved from death by a pertly pining princess (Sandra Bullock) who, loving him from afar, is unaware that he's really a toad in disguise...
...While You Were Sleeping" is a fairy tale starring Sandra Bullock as the princess, Peter Gallager as the sleeping prince and Bill Pullman as the man Bullock eventually discovers is her true love. Bullock plays a token taker on the Chicago El who, while admiring Gallager from afar, has never spoken to him. She saves Gallager's life in an accident that leaves him temporarily in a coma. His family, clustered around his bedside, mistakes Bullock for his fiance (a fiction she encourages) and we're off in a movie thatTIME movie reviewer Richard Schickelsays recaptures the true spirit...
Since dissidents were silenced by the Communistgovernment, Havel's work could not be published inCzechoslovakia and his plays were banned from thecountry, yet still influenced the revolutionariesfrom afar...
...disarrayed bones protruded everywhere: columns, capitals, broken herms, arches, battle sarcophaguses, furnishing Poussin with a repertoire of prototypes to which his imagination would ceaselessly return. Poussin had to live in Rome in order to become the leading French painter of his age, changing the status of French art from afar by the gravitational force of his own achievements...