Word: dente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Churchill, half American by birth, had rested his hope of ultimate victory in U.S. intervention. He had established a personal relationship with President Roosevelt that he hoped would flower into a war-winning alliance. Roosevelt's reluctance to commit the U.S. beyond an association "short of war" did not dent his optimism. He always hoped events would work his way. The decision by Japan, Hitler's ally, to attack the American Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, justified his hopes. That evening he confided to himself, "So we had won after...
...written this year off. By 1999 he expects to have new product, a new management structure and better press. Knight envisions a totally global company, one in which communication of the brand flows effortlessly through language and cultural barriers. He knows the past six months have made a sizable dent in that progress. "When we started kind of really emphasizing [globalism]," he says, "I thought, well, Nike could do it in five years. Maybe it'll be 20, but it isn't five...
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...Stevens cannot direct this anger, for it permeates the town of Sam Dent. The children united the town through a sense of community. Without the bond provided by the children, the dark secrets of the San Dent are revealed. The tiny town recalls the isolated communities imagined by David Lynch, where normalcy masks taboos such as incest and adultery...
...echoed in Robert Browning's poem, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," which she tells in flashback to the children she baby-sits. Browning's poem provides a recurring metaphor for the film--one not limited to the simple comparison between the children of Hamelin and those of Sam Dent...