Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Somehow, through the accretion of such details, the arc of a relationship does begin dimly to emerge. A marriage that may not have been for love alone, nor for money, nor for political expediency grew to have a measure of each. "He did not object to marrying Jackie because it would put a crimp in his sex life," Klein writes,"...but he knew that marriage would bring certain wrenching changes. For one thing, he would have to trust Jackie with his deepest secrets." Both authors believe that ultimately he did so, and that the bond deepened as Kennedy realized...
...beauty of the game is that it traces the arc of life. Until mid-August, baseball was a boy in shorts whooping it up in the fat grass. Now it becomes a leery veteran with a sunbaked neck, whose main concern is to protect the plate. In its second summer, baseball is about fouling off death...
...encapsulated for a leap of faith that may be (we tell ourselves) as statistically acceptable as ever, but psychologically harder now. The passengers on Flight 800 began a trajectory to the City of Light and ended, after a few minutes, in a burst, and then the profoundest blackness. An arc of time interrupted by eternity...
...Europe produced films and filmmakers that were the envy of American producers and art-house audiences. In Sweden, Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjostrom made sweeping dramas of man in tune with or enslaved by nature. Denmark's Carl Dreyer shot his heroically austere The Passion of Joan of Arc in France. The Germans boasted Ernst Lubitsch's puckish historical sagas and Fritz Lang's grand parables. Lang's Siegfried had a fire-breathing dragon, a contraption 50 ft. long operated by eight men; his gigantic, prophetic Metropolis nearly bankrupted its backers...
This Esmeralda is less a medieval Gypsy than a willful California teen with Joan of Arc aspirations; imagine a Loire Valley Girl, a Militia Silverstone. Hurling invective at Frollo, flirting with the hunky, John Smith-like Captain Phoebus (Kevin Kline) and singing the film's most poignant solo, about a Gypsy holocaust ("God help the outcasts, or nobody will"), she emerges as the latest in Disney's line of feminist freedom fighters--a Pocahontas with Romany eyes...