Word: braved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When John Glenn and the other Mercury astronauts began their probing of space, the whole world went nuts over how brave and daring these men were. Everyone overlooked the brave and daring pilots who were flying and dying in rocket planes in America's deserts. Now once again the media are telling the great space story, while the memories of the true rocket- and manned-flight pioneers fade away like desert shadows. CHARLES A. STORIE Sachsenheim, Germany...
...viciousness of the military response hardened attitudes. "Damn this country!" muttered a student as he tied a wet towel around his face to ward off the tear gas. One distraught resident asked bitterly, "If the military is so brave, why don't they fight other countries--why do they attack the people?" And while the police and the army were booed and pelted with debris, the crowd cheered the arrival of the marines--who had fraternized with protesters who forced out Suharto in May--thus prompting wild visions of civil war. On Saturday, as thousands of protesters headed...
...Benigni believes in his film's title, and it is this optimism which makes the movie's unlikely concept work. This celebration of the imagination in the face of so much reality--not just in the movie's plot but in its whole visual and emotional style--is a brave choice that will make this film a classic. See this movie for a reminder of the wonderful heights that film can achieve and for the at-long-last American arrival of a major international talent. Erwin R. Rosenberg...
...intelligent worker's face, Svenningsson explained, "We and Tore [the producer] sat down, and we wanted something new. We even thought about changing producers, but [Johansson] felt the same way: the Cardigans' sound was a bit dull....So we bought a big computer and made this album." If the brave new Cardigans struggled at certain points, as when the electronics system abruptly failed in midsong, the sense of exploration at the concert was unmistakable and infectious...
...boxes of Ashtons, Padrons and Montecristos lining the shelves. Sonny will aid cigar novices with his storehouse of tobacco knowledge, choosing selections according to price ranges and personal tastes. While the wannabe-pretentious Harvardian may feign unswerving devotion to Leavitt and Peirce, the true tobacco aficiando is willing to brave the ride to Alewife in exchange for Sonny's expertise and, of course, an opportunity to play Keno...