Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...excited to see Nancy Gibbs refer to schools as "looking in a mirror, under bright lights" [SPECIAL REPORT, Oct. 25]. It is true that kids have not changed. We as a society have. It is preposterous to believe that teenagers, adolescents and children are capable of determining their own distinct culture. They merely mirror the thoughts, ideas, attitudes and actions of adults--especially parents. Schools are the showcase displaying what our kids have learned--not only from teachers but from all of us. MATTHEW A. WERNER Union Mills...
...very funny," Rosen said. "Dean Bean is very distinct...
...Mansfield believes in distinct male and female roles. Although he admits to making his own breakfast, the kitchen is his wife's domain. "I do a lot of the rest," he insists, in his soft-spoken, even shy voice. "I carry out the garbage. I carry out the trash." Pressed to name other responsibilities--apart from the overwhelming burden of carrying out both the trash and the garbage--Mansfield responds curtly. "I'm not going to list them all. Either it would be boasting, or it would be holding me up to ridicule...
...viewer must remember that Renoir filmed this before concentration camps and Vietnam POW camps, when war had a distinct code of morality and enemy soldiers had a distant respect for each other's bravery...
...intricate mourning of her husband's death. She becomes obsessed with the images of death in Holbein's painting "The Ambassadors" and the Rodney King incident as they relate to her loss. Such challenges are met by McGee's decision to divide the woman's voice into three distinct roles: the grieving wife, the part of her consciousness obsessed with the painting and her socially active voice. By doing so, the audience is able to recognize the connection between the seemingly unrelated issues of Rodney King and the Holbein's work involved in the woman's grieving process. One voice...