Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Administration won't have to do much. First, issue a brief statement about morality, conscience and academic duty to be printed somewhere in the Handbook for Students. Then, start printing blue books with "ON my honor, I have neither give nor received aid on this examination" written on the inside cover...
...late legendary filmmaker, Frederico Fellini is not shy about undisguisedly thrusting religious imagery onto the viewer, for in the brief opening sequence of "La dolce vita", he depicts the Second Coming of Christ with a helicopter carrying a statue of Jesus Christ towards St. Peter's Square in Rome. But Fellini immediately proposes the tragic theme of a world incapable of spiritual reawakening, a world without God where people are incapable of giving and receiving love. Reporters covering the story of the statue's transport are inside the helicopter, and the only people they humorously manage to "awaken" are four...
...Ryan and Tom Cruise have made "a lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment," then I must have missed something really spectactular in their brief careers...
...symbols and their signifieds matter to us and others, and hours after the brief meeting, Clinton was excoriated by the imams and their political bedfellows in Iran and other Islamic states. Certainly not all Muslims participated, but in scope and intensity enough to help finely attune our moral compasses once again...
Despite years of worthy work, LaChiusa was a virtual unknown until a couple of months ago, when his equally imaginative First Lady Suite opened a too brief run off-Broadway. That collage featured a time-traveling romp in which Mamie Eisenhower caught her husband with a mistress, then journeyed with Marian Anderson to watch Ike integrate Little Rock, Arkansas; an eerie dream song in which a secretary to the Kennedys envisioned, on her way to the fateful motorcade in Dallas, the events about to unfold; and a wing-walking scene in which Eleanor Roosevelt's alleged lover, Lorena Hickok, bemoaned...