Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these kids' antics are fun to watch for a while, but, for all the touching moment and broad dramatic sweeps, the filmmaker's attitude seems to be that they remain antics, and an unconvincing, heavily ironic ending doesn't help. Although rolling R's and pronouncing a key word "shate" certainly jazz things up, boldness and brashness do not a drama make...
...they admire The Large Bathers and other works during the show's three-month run. Local businesses see the show as a portrait of potential customers. Financial-services company Advanta underwrote the show, and 15 hotels are offering package deals that include VIP admission to the exhibit. In a broad bow to popular culture, Sandra Horrocks, the Philadelphia Museum of Art's vice president for marketing, will throw out the first pitch when the hometown Phillies play host to the Florida Marlins on the Fourth of July. Her spheroid: a vibrantly colored, vinyl-covered ball with Cezanne's signature...
...absence of a clear constitutional imperative, however, he is willing to grant broad powers to the majority and demonstrates, as George Kannar, a law professor who has written extensively on Scalia, has noted, "an affection for established norms, and for 'normalcy' in general, extending to the most private part of private life." Therefore it was not surprising when, dissenting from the court's holding last month that psychotherapists should have a privilege against disclosing their clients' confidences in court proceedings, Scalia wrote, "Ask the average citizen: Would your mental health be more significantly impaired by preventing you from seeing...
...would-be farce. Missy is kidnapped and imprisoned under a shuffle-board court, Dawn runs away to Times Square to look at her, and the father is rushed to the hospital with the nervous breakdown. The strictly mundane world of "Dollhouse" cannot expand fast enough to support such broad, blowsy strokes...
...ambition won out--her career appears to be a seamless succession of secular triumphs, from being student-body president of her college to being the first woman ever to speak at Washington's Gridiron Banquet. But polished as she is at giving speeches, at charming strangers with her broad smile and soft manners, Dole's public pursuits are a daily burden. She has confided to an aide that she can imagine herself one day entering a cloistered religious order. She has admitted that her happiest moment on the campaign trail is when she shuts her hotel door at night...