Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After the scoring burst that opened the period, the Crimson took advantage of three costly Big Green penalties in the final eight minutes of the second to make a statement to a Dartmouth team that took Harvard to overtime at Bright Hockey Center...
...wild romp through dangerous and exciting places, the text subtly takes on the feeling of each different country. When Keelin wanders through the Tokyo night life the descriptions take on a hard, bright, almost neon like quality. As she sweats through sickness in Central America a fuzzy magic-realism pervades. New York and Las Vegas become the barren, American suburban talk-show circuit. Like the text, Keelin is subtly changed by each new location, making a journey that began as a quest for someone else her own. Even as she moves towards real independence, though, Keelin is snared...
...follow the life of Tasha, a street-smart, scholastically bright, incredibly strong 15-year-old who narrates her own story with a colorful, spirited voice that refuses to falter or halt regardless of all that she faces: the ever-increasing violence and crime in her inner-city Buffalo neighborhood, the blatant drug-dealing of her next-door neighbor, the fact that her child, Imani, is both daughter and granddaughter of single mothers...
...struggle to integrate her life as a mother with her life as a motivated, bright students is complicated by the emotional issues attached to the rape which she has been a victim and her heart wrenchingly adolescent yearning for the life of the girls she sees in Seventeen. Her survival in spite of such daunting obstacles becomes for us a shining example of the triumph of the human spirit...
...paths crossed again in Los Angeles in the '70s. We both enjoyed watching women's tennis and developed quite a friendship. She was very bright, with a great sense of humor. When she recorded a song I wrote, Love Me by Name, Dusty knew exactly what she wanted. She handpicked the musicians and worked with the arranger for weeks. When she went into the vocal booth, put on the headset and closed her eyes, she reached down into the depths of her soul and made magic. As Dusty is wailing and the record is fading she ad-libs two little...