Word: bestow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...immovable heft, men built like trucks. Now they silently palm-smacked their clubs, their eyes as narrow as the slits in an armored car. Most of the convention delegates and dignitaries quartered in the fortress Hilton were at the moment three miles away at the convention hall, preparing to bestow upon poor Hubert Humphrey the nomination he thought would redeem the years of humiliation and corrupting self-abasement he had endured as Johnson's Vice President...
...about a party that, mysteriously, no one could leave. This time there's no war, and it's the audience that's trapped. In Susan Minot's goofy script, Tyler ministers to ailing writer Jeremy Irons and other artsy layabouts while searching for the man on whom to bestow her virginity. The climactic deflowering scene provides the only giggles in an otherwise stodgy mess...
...about the Harvard class of 2000 or in such articles as New York magazine's "Give Me Harvard or Give Me Death," the discrimination with which Harvard chooses each class makes the world believe that we are situated in some society of supermen and women. Harvard has agreed to bestow its once-in-a-lifetime college experience on us, the most unique pool of students in the country. We are assumed to be the exemplars of well-roundedness, or else we might never have been granted acceptance. We cannot possibly be a mere collection of lopsided, talent-specific individuals...
...gray, unnamed city (it's shot in Vancouver). Profit, a junior vice president, blackmails, murders and manipulates to remove obstacles and enemies, but his ultimate goal is unclear. While his urge to control is maniacal, he appears to want powers even grander than a mere title like CEO could bestow. The operations of Gracen & Gracen, "a family company," are shrouded in mystery. They simply "acquire"--businesses, information and, of course, souls...
...need to positively respond to our wishes in both word and deed. In exchange, we would honor your with our respect and admiration. These are valuable items, and I hope that you would be honored to receive them. I only await the day when I, and other students, can bestow them. --Stephanie B. Russek...