Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clare Campion, 42, a successful novelist living in New York City, pays one of her infrequent visits home to Mountain City in western North Carolina. There she finds her mother Lily, her stepfather Ralph Quick and her two half brothers, Theo, 28, and Rafe, 26, all of them behaving incorrigibly...
So why use overtime, a staple among professional teams? Because the fans want to see a definite end to the game. It allows an opportunity to the overachiever who gives a great performance for the team in the most clutch situation of all. An overtime would give the Ivy League...
"The governor's central message is, and always has been, his commitment to economic opportunity for all Americans," Akey said. "We don't have to stress the governor's personal character because [his character] comes through very clearly."
But the issue of character has been an important plus in the governor's campaign. "If the president was chosen based upon international affairs, defense strategy or charisma, Dukakis wouldn't have a chance," said Boston political consultant Michael S. Goldman. "But since national issues, competence, honesty and personal integrity...
The other actors succeed in creating realistic characters even before the show begins as they ad lib in character on the stage while the audience is being seated. Later, when 22 of them are talking at once, the actors reinforce their characters through gestures, imaginative costumes, and for Tara Dolan...