Word: braved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first marriage, to a homebody (played here with spunky charm by Trini Alvarado), was a disaster; the only family that counted with him was the team and the raffish demimonde it inhabited off the field. Ruth fared better the second time around. Claire Ruth (Kelly McGillis, in a brave, hard-nosed performance), a sometime show girl, had nothing against partying, but she was tough, shrewd and -- probably the only kind of woman Ruth could understand -- roughly affectionate, a little bit like one of the guys. In any case, you can't characterize their relationship as either tender or traditionally romantic...
Still, it takes a brave student to dive into the deep water of a complicated subject. "For the first couple of weeks, I couldn't understand anything," recalls Great Falls second-grader Courtney Pilka. "But after I got used to it, I started liking it a lot. I learned the alphabet and the numbers. Now it's part of my life." For many students, this is true outside the classroom as well, as they are inspired to explore Japanese restaurants, art and music. "I think the cultural experience is every bit as important as the language," says Jill McKee...
...offered to transport it from its bandbox site to the pilastered prestige of London's West End. There its exuberance and energy wedded happily with a larger space and wittier, more elaborate settings, a fantasy urban landscape in which skyscrapers look like zoot-suited people. So he decided to brave Broadway, where Five Guys Named Moe boogied in last week. It is a slight, sometimes silly but absolutely joyful experience, larkish and lighthearted and a bit like running around with a lampshade on your head...
...must take some of the blame ourselves, we ordinary, middle-level citizens. For years we voted for men who promised to battle Big Government, also known as a "cancer," un-American and inimical to Our Way of Life. And they did, these brave men, these Reagans and Bushes: they cut and they trimmed. They deregulated. They privatized. They hacked at entitlements and skirmished with "waste" . . . Until nothing was left...
...brave youngster who threw a ball accurately enough to dunk a Mather resident into a tank of water, simply smirked matter-of-factly and strolled on to the next booth...