Word: dwelling
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...Continent on the other, mainly in such fields as microprocessors, information technologies and bioengineering. Linked to that imbalance is a lingering worry over slow growth and high unemployment. Another reason for the sense of drift is demographic. The 60% of Europeans born since V-E day tend to dwell less on the horrors of World War II than on a U.S.-Soviet rivalry that bristles with nuclear weapons, many of them based on European soil. In Western Europe, some of that sentiment has flowed into the pacifist and antinuclear movement that brought thousands of people into the streets two years...
...have been adapted by the Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu. The eccentric Tam household is memorialized in painterly images: the wind shuddering through the curtains next to Mom's sewing machine, the rows of shoes ceremoniously placed by the front stairway. Tradition holds firm in this house, and those who dwell in it, like Geraldine and Uncle, must be modern martyrs to Mom's insistence on doing things the old way. Here is a life, and a film, built on small, telling gestures. A daughter dutifully brushes her mother's hair. She cries from responsibility and, later, from relief. Her shoes...
...Kerry don’t dwell on whatever has happened,” sophomore Sarah Shaughnessy said...
Nossiter and fellow camera operators Juan Pittaluga and Stephanie Pommez keep the grandeur of Mondovino’s vision in check by giving the camera a refreshingly childlike life of its own. The camera shots wobble, dwell curiously on small children and dogs, and occasionally pan across landscapes at dizzying speed, seemingly giddy over the wondrous, peculiar world Nossiter has discovered...
...tasks. Fundraising is a harder job than it often appears, and to many observers, Rudenstine’s devotion to that mission made the job of Harvard president look unromantic, unimpressive, and slightly tawdry. Everyone at Harvard could think of ways to spend that money, but few wanted to dwell on what was required to raise it. And, to be sure, the fact that Rudenstine had to raise an estimated $1 million a day meant that he was more removed from undergraduate life than he, and the students, would have liked...