Word: belled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another recent victory, an environmental coalition forced MacMillan Bloedel, Canada's largest lumber company, to stop clear-cutting and to stay out of pristine coastal rain forests. The tactic that worked? Getting MacBloe's big customers, such as Pacific Bell (whose phone books were made partly with old-growth wood), to ratchet up the pressure...
This responsibility is required of Ray, and it is his struggle that defines both his character and the film. Fortunately, he is helped in this struggle by Lauren Bell (played by Sonja Sohn, also a novice at film). A prison English teacher and poet herself, Laruen hears Ray perform while in jail, in a remarkable scene where he averts a gang fight by performing a poem he wrote which challenges the direction of their aggression towards each other. Once out on bail, Ray seeks her out, and they develop a relationship which, although slightly stretching the notion of love...
...masters' request, the Great Bell in the Lowell House Tower tolled 22 times at 6 p.m. yesterday in memory of Matthew Shepard...
Some Lowell residents stood up and observed a moment of silence as the bell tolled even though they were not asked...
Urbach said both he and the masters hoped the memorial bell-ringing would raise student and community awareness of hate crimes...