Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evangelical Christian, complained it was inappropriate for Rivers to have discussed her sex change with Mackarness' 16-year-old daughter Lindsey in a private conversation at school. But as soon as Mackarness finished speaking, Lindsey jumped up to tell the board she disagreed with her mother and stood behind Rivers...
...fell ill and was refused medical treatment." When Ivan Kotov died at age 35, his teenage daughter, unable to escape the stigma of guilt by association, decided to move to the West. She eventually made her way to the U.S. to study at Yale, leaving her state-owned cello behind at the Moscow Conservatory...
...sometimes ugly truth is that when this sort of work sticks its jaw out into the wider world, its jaw turns to glass. That is surely the case with the lightning rod of the show, Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary (1996). The work, which has now been placed behind Plexiglas, with a velvet rope in front and a guard standing by to protect it from any angry viewers, is a perfectly competent rendering of a Christian icon--a central figure on a ground of gold. The drawing of an African Mary (Ofili is of Nigerian descent) is plausible...
...schizophrenic (Scottish actor Ewen Bremner), his bullying dad (Werner Herzog) and pregnant sister (Chloe Sevigny)--when Von Trier & Co. suggested he make it under Dogme strictures. "I liked the idea of it being a rescue action from the elevation of cosmetics," he says, "the idea of not hiding behind the trickery." Bremner found that the stripped-down system let him focus on his craft: "I don't have to reserve a portion of my brain to monitor the on-set mechanics--lighting rigs, camera tracks, field of focus. I can dedicate myself fully to realize what I want...
...Quayle dropped out of the presidential race after his poor showing in the Iowa straw poll where he finished eighth...behind straw. --Jon Stewart...