Word: braved
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...help them support themselves and make their new liberty real. For most of them, of course, the promise never materialized, even though the Freedmen's Bureau had the authority to rent abandoned or confiscated Southern farmland to freed slaves until they could afford to buy it. If that brave promise had been kept, Mr. President, you wouldn't be embroiled in the latest debate about a government apology for slavery. If the freedmen had become landowners instead of penurious laborers, their descendants would be prosperous enough today to be, well, conservative Republicans...
...Disney full-animated feature is the most profitable franchise in movies, maybe in the entire entertainment industry. The pressure to keep producing the tiniest variations on a winning formula must be severe. So it was brave for the Disney artists to try tiptoeing away from what worked. Pocahontas had soaring melodies to match its do-gooding intentions; The Hunchback of Notre Dame came within two deaths and three cute gargoyles of being the first grownup singing-cartoon romantic tragedy. But these two movies also had an almost toxic serioso content. At times they got so solemn they could have been...
...brave new world of deregulation, airlines have foundered from a deadly mix of overexpansion and downward pressure on fares. Then there is Midwest Express Airlines, an upstart based in Milwaukee, Wis., that pampers customers with wide leather seats, free champagne and provisions that arrive on china--and thus far has a habit of pulling premium fares from passengers' pockets...
...Bell's muscle made it possible for others to build competing services. But it left some 3 million AT&T shareholders vulnerable. Suddenly gone was a quintessential widow's and orphan's stock. In its place was a smattering of shares of eight different companies, all entering a brave new telecom world that promised upheaval and risk, not safety. The bust-up, though, has proved a resounding success for investors who simply did nothing. One hundred shares of AT&T the day before the court-ordered break-up was worth $6,052. Anyone who held on to those shares, along...
...first-time movie director JOHNNY DEPP, pride of auteurship beats a glowing review any day. "Regardless of what people think of the movie, it's my film," said the director of The Brave. At his Cannes Film Festival press screening, Depp experienced a noble tradition of the 50-year-old festival: booing at the end of a crummy picture. During his spell in Cannes, Depp toted around the Hollywood Reporter, which roundly panned his work. Marlon Brando co-stars with Depp in the grim tale of a poor Native American who agrees to be in a snuff film to earn...