Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...throw. He catches. He throws. I catch. The ball wobbles so slightly in the bright stillness that one can almost count the stitches...
...filmmaker who has spent the past 28 months making a documentary on five long-term crank users in Los Angeles. As a rule, these addicts are bright, entrepreneurial, artistic, independent-minded, hopeful, spiritually oriented and profoundly alienated. All my subjects carry a burden of shame and deep-seated self-loathing. All cite profound loneliness, frustration, depression, anxiety and hopelessness as major factors implicated in using crank. They say they are medicating themselves. ANDREW ABRAMS, Chairman WorldView Foundation Sunland, Calif...
...dominates the atmosphere of the movie, from the tropical saturation of the Miami scenes to the dingy gray of inner-city Detroit. A mesmerizing clarity of hue and light is emphasized by camera angles more inventive than those of standard industry shots. The surprising shots usually enhance the movie--bright, brittle, nonchalant depiction of the sparse violence appears almost innocuous, preserving Foley's good-guy feel; a dizzying, lightning-quick camera pan around a prison yard makes a scrawny inmate look as ferocious as he really...
...Erectus is supposed to have been busy colonizing the coldest climes of Asia back then. How on earth did he do it without a way to keep the home fires burning? "In essence," said biologist Steve Weiner, lead author of the study, "we spoil the story." Look on the bright side -- scientists now have a whole new missing link to ponder. The Zhoudoudian tourist industry is unlikely to see it that way, however...
...know her well. I've worked with her, she is a superb legislator, she is bright and energetic, with an uncommon degree of common sense. We are delighted to have her as a fellow," he said...