Word: cid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...went to the dancing football player who isn't afraid to get sentimental about the kwan. This pendulum swing back from meta-gazing helps to explain the success of the gooey, sunset-flooded Titanic and its Celine Dion title song. Of course, we're not returning to the El-Cid era of filmmaking in which we're expected to throw our hearts immediately into the valiant Charleston Heston's 11th-century siege of Valencia. Titanic, at least, puts the story in the memory of Rose DeWitt Bukater, justifying any sentimental outrage by framing it in her memory. I admit that...
...ceremony, three Harvard professors whostudy Africa, Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr.,Jeffrey D. Sachs '76 and Kwesi Botchwey, announceda new program from Harvard's Center forInternational Development (CID) to devote moretime to studying Africa and working with Africaninstitutions and scholars...
...remarks, Botchwey, director of AfricaResearch and Programs at the CID, expressed whatothers later said encapsulated their experience...
...World War II; biographies of the Founding Fathers; bound editions of the American Hunter; tough-guy novels by Larry McMurtry, Elmore Leonard and Patrick O'Brien. And, yes, the souvenirs: the ax, dripping fake blood, from a production of Macbeth and the sword from the movie El Cid. ("All things I've killed with or been killed with.") A statue of Andrew Jackson, given to him by the director Cecil B. DeMille, recalls another epic role. "Jackson was one of my favorite Presidents," says Heston, grinning. "One mean son of a bitch...
...officials were quick to dissociate the newcenter from HIID. While HIID reports to theUniversity provost, CID will be under the KSGdean...