Word: bring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There have always been conflicts and hatreds between brothers--Cain and Abel, for example. There will always be a Jewish nation, divided or not [WORLD, May 11]. Leave the Jews to settle their differences by themselves. The press has helped destroy a princess, and is working to bring down the American President. Is the state of Israel next? LARA SAUER, age 16 Johannesburg...
What created the movies' vivid, fluent brand of illusionism--besides the talents of great filmmakers, of course--was the development of more mobile cameras, more expressive lighting, more sophisticated editing and, above all, more ingenious special effects that could bring to life prehistoric worlds of dinosaurs and future worlds of space travel. And let's not forget animated films, perhaps the purest cinema of all, in which technology allows the creation of an entire visual world unimpeded by such tiresome exigencies of the real world as sets, props and actors...
...this is to say nothing of TV's power to bring us real-life events: a moon walk or the Olympics, an uprising in Tiananmen Square or Princess Diana's funeral. We conduct not only a lot of our fantasy lives on TV but also our political campaigns (and sometimes it's hard to tell which is which). From the Persian Gulf in 1991, we learned that global TV can even be a means of waging...
...made; never had new art been the subject of such impassioned controversy or reached so large an audience. Museums, especially in the U.S., had to embrace newness or look retro. The century didn't see the birth of the avant-garde--that had happened earlier--but it did bring its death, after experiment and eccentricity became the norm. Inevitably, all that had seemed startling or threatening came to look normal, even classical, within a few decades. In the end, the new lost its power to shock...
...each other across his face, the Tramp is never unself-conscious, never free of calculation, never anything but a hard-pressed if often divinely lighthearted member of an endangered species, entitled to any means of defense he can devise. Faced with a frequently malign universe, he can never quite bring himself to choose between his pleasure in the improvisatory shifts of strategic retreat and his impulse to love some creature palpably weaker and more threatened than himself...