Word: braved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brave new technologies stir up conflicting feelings, breeding hope and despair where once there was resignation. The high price of in vitro * treatments (ranging from $6,000 to more than $50,000 per live birth) means that only the rich and well-insured can afford them. Patients who have undergone round after round say it is like riding an emotional roller coaster; you never know when you are going to run into a brick wall and have your heart broken...
...still, none of these stellar performances can compare with that of President Bush. Like the old vaudevillian Ted Healy with his famous triple slap across the faces of the Three Stooges, the President achieved three objectives with one stroke: to evoke a nation's sympathy for a brave man's tears, to present this effusion of salt water in a religious setting, and to remind us of a Commander in Chief's brilliant military triumph in the gulf...
...Penn's world, reputation counts for more than celebrity, and fame is no laughing matter. Posed against bare backgrounds and pressed by mortal shadows, his stalwart artists and writers are icons of modernism at its most brave, clean and reverent. Their solemnity may be a pose in itself, but it has its metaphorical power. Penn's fashion shots take on greater weight in the company of his portraits; the passage of time seems to hang over them both. They in turn magnify the effect of a third kind of picture that he started taking in 1967, when he began...
They are the people without voices, the ones who don't know enough, don't care enough, aren't smart enough, aren't independent enough, aren't healthy enough and aren't brave enough to learn to survive in a capitalist world. One day, perhaps in 20 years, the transition to capitalism will have made the Soviet UnUnion a healthier and wealthier place than it ever was under Communism. But that is cold comfort for the voiceless people...
...early '80s. He knew that Gorbachev believed all nationalities in the U.S.S.R. should be united by Soviet patriotism. In his conversations with Gorbachev he evoked this sentiment repeatedly, in effect offering himself as an example of a good Balt as opposed to ungrateful, unreasonable troublemakers like Vytautas Landsbergis, the brave but reckless president of Lithuania...