Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...psychological contours that make Henry such a complex hero. From the grime to the sublime, Shakepeare's tragedy, with Henry's conscience as the centerpiece, is translated into a visual maelstrom of patriotic noblemen, blood-curdling gore and ruthless bastards. It's foul, grim stuff with a strong dash of realism to make Shakespeare's play a passionate contemporary tale of shuddering wartime horrors and brutality, without sneaking in too many cliched lessons for us mere mortals...
...judicial panel to probe the propriety of the Clintons' financial affairs, announced the hiring of an ethics counsel to watch over the integrity of his own legal work. Complaints about Starr's past Republican partisanship and the objectivity of the judges who picked him prompted him to hire Samuel Dash as a watchdog. Dash is the former chief counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee and an exemplar of Democratic probity...
FILM The success of movies by black directors like Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing) and John Singleton (Boyz in the Hood) proved that black-oriented, mainstream movies can be profitable. Less commercial black filmmakers like Julie Dash (Daughters of the Dust) and Charles Burnett (To Sleep with Anger) continue to have difficulty raising money, but they produce substantial work nevertheless. One such movie is Haile Gerima's electrifying underground hit Sankofa, in which a young black woman is transported back in time to experience the horrors of slavery. Gerima, a professor of film at Washington's predominantly black Howard...
...acquisitions and tended to the nuts and bolts of the business. Eisner was the company's intellectual incubator, dreaming up new projects, overseeing theme-park expansion and, in his own words, acting as the company's main "cheerleader." So close were the two men that each was said to dash into the other's office as many as 15 times a day. On the weekend after Wells died, Eisner found himself picking up the phone to call his partner and ask when they should schedule the memorial service...
...just emptied a safe and are about to make a frantic dash for your secret hideaway in the city's alleys...