Word: displays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Holding back by the blueline was never easy for Storey, but the discipline throughout the two-year learning process translated into a potent game on both sides of the ice. Eventually, equipped with a much-improved defensive game, Storey was able to move forward and display his natural strength...
...first thing many visitors did was go to the restaurant's porch, overlooking the Brentwood hills, and try to make out celebrities' houses. The line at the bookstore is perhaps the most tellingly Los Angeles--everyone is out to get a poster or T-shirt so they can proudly display the fact that they were among the first to experience the Getty. Visitors shuffled through the rooms, hardly looking at the paintings, making their way to the high walkways to point out their UCLA dorms or their office buildings. Visitors seem to understand that the architecture--bold and iconic...
...semen sequence" is one of the most entertaining parts of The Postman, Costner's latest overblown, over-long epic adventure. In answer to your immediate questions: no, it's not a great film; yes, the premise is hokey; yes, it's too long; and yes, it's a blatant display of self-aggrandizement and megalomania on the part of actor-director-producer Costner. But is it as bad as everyone thought it would be? As was true of Waterworld...
...asks. "Did you lose contact with them?" He pauses. Shakes his head. "I don't know. We didn't know them that well, you know. That's the strange thing." Quiet settles over the table again. I ask, "But they did the right thing?" Grove offers a chilling display of his pragmatism. He looks at me, dry-eyed now: "They did the right thing because it worked. If they had got killed over it, it wouldn't have been the right thing...
With no glaring cause to display mass emotions, anything that happened could qualify. Behold the responses to the death of Mother Teresa, the birth of the McCaughey seven, the au pair trial and, most amazingly, Diana. The public reaction to the septuplets might have been the same in any era; there is always something enchanting and heartwarming about human beings' doing something odd, like producing a litter. Likewise, the loss of so demonstrably selfless a person as Mother Teresa might effect a mass response in any year...