Word: depth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter 'Cuz You'll Know That You're Right. That's 90 words--in iambic quadrameter--if you're counting at home, but we could...
...Uehlinger. "It's taking what Biography does so well and Behind the Music does so well another step forward." But he hopes to use NBC's video archives to turn around episodes quickly in response to news events, in addition to a regular lineup of more time-consuming, in-depth newsmaker and entertainer profiles...
...that he became known mainly as a hunk. It was hard to play ball with him in the summer, when he always seemed ready to take off his shirt, because of the gawkers that would gather. But I was always surprised more by his solid common sense and the depth of his reflectiveness...
...Dickey, a young geologist at Bush's oil-exploration company, Spectrum 7, had come looking for some optimism--usually a good bet from Bush. After all, Bush was that lean, kinetic, glass-half-full kind of guy who loved edgy verbal sparring and dumb nicknames (he called Dickey "Total Depth," a drilling term that matched his initials). But this time Bush was fresh out of optimism. With his cowboy boots propped up on his desk, he was leaning back in his chair, gazing out the window at the parched and desolate landscape of Midland, 50 miles from the New Mexico...
...card, but it is a low one. You can ask for movies to be gentler, a tiny bit more attentive to the power of the repeated image over the young. But after criticizing what's there, think about what's missing. Can we please have a little grandeur and depth in movies? Not of armies on parade or edifying soap operas, but of stories that touch our essential humanity, told with care and flair. Is it possible for a film to resonate in a billion heads at once, hooking adults as intensely as fairy tales once mesmerized kids...