Word: almost
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...concerned with the lack of support andcommunity for that large segment of the studentpopulation whose experiences are `unspeakable' and`invisible' almost everywhere on campus," sheadded...
Alonzo Mourning, by all accounts the most deserving MVP candidate in the league, watched Houston's desperation attempt drop downward toward the paint. Mourning blossomed under Pat Riley's tutelage into one of the NBA's finest all-around centers, and almost single-handedly carried the Heat to the best record in the East...
...good Star Wars fan knows the story of how George Lucas was turned down by countless studios before he was able to convince 20th Century Fox to take on what was, by almost all accounts, an outrageous project. And who could blame all those cautious studio executives who passed on the chance to produce what would become the highest grossing movie the world had ever seen...
...movies have been viewed so many times that they have come to be treated as projections of a generation's still-fragile heritage, not as a trilogy of George Lucas movies. Since those movies came out, a generation of Americans have made them an almost-religious touchstone, and in the last decade the Star Wars franchise has generated a canon of Star Wars trivia, coming in the form of trashy novels and pretentious "technical manuals." This new movie, then, comes as a banal realization of rumors that have been circulating for 20 years...
...hype preceding the release of the movie is almost unprecedented. The millions of fans who watched the original "Star Wars" trilogy unfold and the millions more who have discovered the series in the years since "Return of the Jedi" was released wait in heady anticipation for Episode I, the first of three "prequel movies." This anticipation has, in true consumer culture fashion, translated itself into a whirlwind of product advertisements and money-making promotions...