Word: amanda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elsewhere, she deftly depicts the ways in which women can create glamorously detailed personas for one another based on passing observations of dress or manner. In Sacred Heart, the finest story in the collection, a girl named Sarah grows fascinated by a mysterious new classmate, Amanda. "She wore silver bracelets embedded with chunks of turquoise," notes Sarah, "and she would cross her legs and stare into space in a way that suggested she lived a dark and troubled life." Amanda eventually loses her mystique, of course, but through her the heroine fashions a singular identity...
...PERSUASION and SENSE AND SENSIBILITY The first of these Jane Austen adaptations is reserved, the second more bustling. But both have heroines (played impeccably by Amanda Root and Emma Thompson) who tend to others' emotional needs while submerging their own, yet find a romantic reward. The enchanted viewer is rewarded too: by subtle ensemble acting, writing that understands the void that tactful conversation fills, direction (by Roger Michell and Ang Lee, respectively) that finds the hidden hungers of the cautious soul. Honorable mention to Clueless, the Emma of Beverly Hills High...
...good chance for us to run and get good times," senior co-captain Amanda Williams said. "It reflected really well on our strengths and depth. Everything bodes well for the season...
Senior Stacy Barber scored a crucial five points for the Crimson with a top-of-the-heap leap of 5'6" in the high jump, while the one-mile relay team of Heather Hanson, Allison Goldkamp, Afia Asamoah and Amanda Williams notched the gold. Throw in Jen Braga's third-place, 5'2" finish in the high jump and you have 11 Harvard points to B.C.'s three in consecutive events...
...three people, including myself, already get hurt because everything is so crowded," said Amanda Williams, senior co-captain of the women's track team...