Word: brings
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Perhaps The Color Purple will bring Spielberg the one triumph that has thus ( far eluded him: an Oscar for Best Director (though Clint Eastwood wonders if the industry may not think Spielberg is "a little too young and too successful. He has done so well, it may be a long time before anyone bestows on him any brassworks for the fireplace"). But even with that statuette, one suspects that Spielberg would still be restless. He would still crave those moments when he can spin amazing stories for himself, his kid sisters and a world of children in the dark...
...Each evening alone with big brother meant a new Amazing Story. The youngest, Nancy (now 29 and a jewelry designer in New York City), remembers: "We were sitting with our dolls, and Steven was singing as if he was on the radio. Then he interrupted himself 'to bring us an important message.' He announced that a tornado was coming, then flipped us over his head to safety. If we looked at him, he said, we'd turn to stone." Nancy played a featured role in Steven's minimum opus Firelight, a sci-fi thriller made when...
...Institute is mutually beneficial. Practioners are so concerned with the everyday life of the institution, with keeping it going, that they don't always have time to bring new ideas to the surface. At the same time, practitioners have a whose lot of craft knowledge that rarely reaches the university setting," says Tabor...
Burno M. Ponterio, a middle school principal from Rye Brook N.Y., says he will bring some ideas for tangible changes back to his suburban school, but also a commitment to enlisting support from his teaching staff before he implements any plans...
...past century, has a shaky hold on Hispanic newcomers. A survey by Chicago Sociologist William McCready shows that 30% to 40% of Catholic Hispanics are not involved in parish life. One problem is the supply of priests and nuns. Unlike European arrivals of the past, Hispanic immigrants do not bring their own clergy with them. Only about 4% of the 57,000 Catholic priests in the U.S. and less than 2% of the 115,000 nuns are Hispanic. Until 1970 the church did not have one U.S.-born Hispanic bishop. (Today there are nine out of a total...