Word: deepest
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...reporters in the face of enormous pressure from the Nixon Administration, which included politically motivated challenges to the Post's TV licenses. Though often credited with courage in this confrontation, she writes, 'the truth is that I never felt there was much choice ... Once I found myself in the deepest water in the middle of the current, there was no going back...
...archaeology professor father and school-librarian mother, Judge grew up amid the grim sprawl of '70s Albuquerque, New Mexico. After college he sampled and ultimately rejected a number of jobs as an electrical engineer before devoting his energies to playing bass in various blues-rock bands. Comedy was his deepest passion, however. "I always wanted to be in Second City," he says, referring to the renowned Chicago-based comedy troupe. "But growing up in Albuquerque I thought, How the hell do you get to be one of those guys?" It wasn't until 1991 that Judge, already married and living...
...seeming newness, however, the marriage between technology and religion is an ancient one. Man has always used state-of-the-art communications technology to convey his deepest thoughts. Five thousand years ago, the Sumerians etched their fears and hopes in cuneiform. Centuries later, the Egyptians glorified Ra on papyrus scrolls. The Old Testament was hewed and edited in the 1st century A.D., when the scrolls were turned into primitive books called codices. Forced for the first time to assign to the Holy Story a beginning, middle and end, Christian and Hebrew scholars took different paths--creating a schism that endures...
...Rice's libretto, to the ravishing Andrew Lloyd Webber score that synthesizes Broadway, opera and pop with the lilt of Latino lounge music. But this Evita is not just a long, complex music video; it works and breathes like a real movie, with characters worthy of our affection and deepest suspicions. For at the heart of the drama is Rice's fascinated ambivalence toward the prototype couple of criminal celebrity and toward the culture that needs them to play out fantasies of success, overreaching greed, the instructive death at an early...
...superhero cartoon "Superfriends"? Is it so exclusive that I'd never even heard of it? Right away, members of the a cappella community made it difficult for me to discern whether I had stumbled upon a typical administrative body or I had sniffed out a cappella's deepest, darkest secret. Crooners refused to comment on it. They denied its existence. They told me it was really no big deal...