Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's pitching has been a bright spot, Abeles has been the sunshine. Last season's Ivy League Rookie of the Year has already tied the Harvard single-season home run record (6) and is one round tripper shy of the all-time mark...
...combination of Kiriyenko and Nemtsov might provide a small boost for reform, the lagging pace of which Yeltsin has been insisting was the main reason for the mass firing. American energy officials who knew Kiriyenko during his brief seven months as Fuel and Energy Minister say he is a bright, able technocrat who is easy to work with...
...beginning, Francie is just a bright, apple-stealing, school-skipping lad, someone you can easily see as "going through a phase." But as he loses mother, father and finally his best friend (Alan Boyle), those pop cultural pictures--hard to say whether the carelessly violent or irrelevantly instructional are more damaging--fill up the empty spaces in his mind. Fill them to a kind of ghastly overflowing, which the film recounts with perverse but curiously appropriate good cheer...
...female troublemakers. Courtney Love is now a chic model/actress, and Sharon Stone has married, in a big peony of a dress, a newspaper boss. We have no brazenly rapacious Barbara Stanwycks or Bette Davises; instead we have Monica Lewinskys and Ally McBeals, women just insecure and pesty. On the bright side, no one will ever make a career out of doing Calista Flockhart in drag...
Most of the story is told by a bright, troubled girl named Mercy, daughter of a preacher whose church has been taken over by religious zealots. "If rain had come, things might have turned out differently," she says. "That is what I think now. But there were children in Outer Maroo who had never seen rain." Into this withered rangeland came a drifter who dressed in white and called himself Oyster, a random alias he had adopted while working with an aquaculture firm. In his new manifestation he was a religious con man, a charismatic spellbinder who had learned...