Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appears to be a great success. But in fact she's an emotional muddle, confused about her career and her love life. As luck would have it, her childhood sweetheart, whom she broke up with at Harvard, is a partner in her firm and is married to a bright, attractive woman. Ally still loves him, and there are intimations that the feeling may be returned, but otherwise she is alone. Smart yet also emotional, Ally represents the modern female trying to remain true to herself in a harsh male world...
...Morris of the event. Though rattled, he soon became chairman of Seagram's Universal Music Group. And now he's on a roll. He boosted Universal's market share to third place from fifth and tripled earnings to $72 million this fiscal year, making music one of the few bright spots in Seagram's media diversification...
Last season was no different. Bright, which can hold more than 3,000 fans, rarely came close to capacity, and there were very few games in which Harvard fans outnumbered their opposition...
...protesters had to be herded into their respective pens: Taiwan here, Tibet there, and all those bubbly, bussed-in Chinese nationalists in the Graduate School of Design. The Chinese communist flag--bright, blood red, arrogant yellow and seemingly spanking new--had to be hung proudly from University Hall. The special-edition Harvard Gazette, a.k.a. Pravda, had to be distributed to the hundreds of international journalists in attendance. The entrances to Loker Commons and Sanders Theatre had to be blocked off for hundreds of feet. And the Taiwanese Culture Society had to be displaced...
...bright spot amidst all of this failed moralistic posturing is a beautifully executed subplot involving the terminally ill patient (Wright) and the nurse (Mirren) who is eventually moved to help him end his life. A strong short film on euthanasia could have been made out of this storyline, but it only goes to waste here...