Word: aura
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambodians. Schanberg covered these American atrocities for the New York Times, with Pran working overtime as photographer-translator-copy boy. When the Khmer Rouge, the target of Nixon's B-52s, managed to overrun Phnom Phenh, Schanberg decided not to join the general exodus of Westerners, trusting to the aura of untouchability bestowed upon anyone possessing a Times press card and an American passport. Though Pran possessed neither of these power-laden documents, personal loyalty to Schanberg kept him from joining his family in the exodus; after all, Schanberg would have been helpless without a translator...
MICKI AND Maude cannot escape the Edwardsian aura of mechanical humor, though the actors manage to emerge with more of their humanity intact than normal for one of Edwards's movies. Part of the reason is that an obsession for fatherhood is a far more complicated affair than an obsession for sex, chocolate, or even motherhood. Another good chunk of the credit goes to the three principals, all of whom appear friendly and accessible on the screen. I would even have given some of the credit to Edwards had I not stuck around to see the movie's credits...
...effect, a one-shot blind bidding contest, and ABC, pulled along by the bold auctioneering, shut out the competition with a shocker of a bid: $225 million. Buoyed by the TV deal, he turned toward his other big source of revenue, America's largest corporations. To create an aura of coveted elitism, he drastically reduced the number of sponsors to 30 (there had been 381 in the 1980 Winter Games at Lake Placid) and hiked the price to an unprecedented $4 million minimum per corporation...
Miriam Schmir is at times captivating during her almost silent performance as the withdrawn, passive Kate. Her childlike voice and preoccupied aura are unsettling as both her husband and friend fight to possess...
...cited the questions surrounding 691 empty envelopes from Medford Ward 3, Precinct I as an example. "It creates an aura of suspicion so that we just don't know what went...