Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shot one another. One time he witnessed two women fighting to the death with knives. Out of those experiences, everything from pomp to humor to erotic charisma to grief to majesty to the profoundly gruesome and monumentally spiritual worked its way into his tone. He became a beacon of American feeling...
Winfrey stands as a beacon, not only in the worlds of media and entertainment but also in the larger realm of public discourse. At 44, she has a personal fortune estimated at more than half a billion dollars. She owns her own production company, which creates feature films, prime-time TV specials and home videos. An accomplished actress, she won an Academy Award nomination for her role in The Color Purple, and this fall will star in her own film production of Toni Morrison's Beloved...
...outside world often does not know whetheror not Radcliffe is still a traditionalundergraduate institution," says Tamar March, deanof educational programs at Radcliffe, who prefersto frame Radcliffe as "a focal point for theadvancement of women and a beacon of intellectualvitality for undergraduates [and others...
Weld then won the November election with a call for entrepreneurial government. During his tenure on Beacon Hill, Weld eliminated a $2.3 billion state deficit and ushered in more than 19 tax cuts for Massachusetts voters...
...worked because Carrey performed self-scrutiny that amounted to a makeover. The Chiclet festival of his smile is often used to undercut an opponent or close the sale of a gag. Here, modified by a few watts, it is a beacon of innocence, vulnerability. Except for Mom and a couple of wives, has anyone before thought of the Carrey face as beautiful? In this film it surely is. That's star quality and craft in tandem, the gift of recapturing innocence even as the movie recaptures the ability of the best old Hollywood films to work as metaphor and magic...