Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taught by Professor of German MariaTatar, the course will study fairy tales "in thebroader context of children's literature andchildrearing practices...
...more conventional movie figures who fare best in this lugubrious context. Dennis Quaid is Doc Holliday, the tubercular gunman-gambler, who gallantly and sardonically confronts his mortality, and Joanna Going plays Josie, the smart, spunky romantic who is Earp's last great passion. These are familiar, forthright characters, and the actors energize the film by playing them with headlong confidence...
...parents of small children. They are primarily young adults in their 20s and 30s -- just the age group most prized by advertisers. But news directors defend their bloodless broadcasts on journalistic grounds as well. WCCO has replaced shots of dead bodies with reports that try to "put crime in context," says news director John Lansing. "The 'flashbulb effect' causes people to become disengaged and fearful of their community, of whole neighborhoods and groups of people because of the lack of context." Says Ed Bewley, chairman of Audience Research & Development, a Dallas-based consulting firm that promotes the family-sensitive approach...
...least a little relevance to the Crimson's season. This season, Penn State beat UCLA to garner the NCAA championships, the first Eastern team to do so in years. Penn State's insurgence on the national scene exemplified a more general improvement in East Coast play, a context in which the Crimson's season must be judged...
...look at this season in context," Acoba says. "Other teams were getting better and we were coming off of a great season last year...