Word: assuredness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Trumpeted as "The Nutcracker With Macaulay Culkin," the new movie prompts dread in fans of the Christmas classic: what have they done to it this time? Rest assured, the ballet has survived intact, Tschaikovsky's score and Balanchine's choreography happily unadulterated.
This interloper into Stavros' workplace is crucial in the mix of signs that make up the movie's happy-ending immigrant story: a job, a straw hat, an infectious smile -- and a scorned black. It is the act of racial contempt that transforms this charming Greek into an entitled white...
Lin's experience in America has been typical. Assured by the smugglers (the Chinese call them "snakeheads") that he would be warmly received, Lin was first hired as a day laborer at a Chinese restaurant, where he worked 14-hour shifts for less than $2 an hour, shucking shrimp and...
Washington is among those most enthusiastic about seeing the reconstruction effort continue. After Hosokawa's election, Clinton, who took the unusual step of endorsing Hosokawa's agenda during the campaign, turned down the heat on U.S.-Japan trade issues and even intervened in international money markets in order to help...
"This thing" is the most difficult and daring space assignment since the Apollo moon landings. Though NASA is trying to downplay it as a "scheduled maintenance flight," the goal is anything but routine: the crew is supposed to fix the faulty Hubble Space Telescope, a $1.6 billion disappointment that has...