Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...winter storm watch was called into effect yesterday afternoon for much of northern New England, potentially foiling travel plans for students heading for home for winter break...
...when Ben-Tor or his successors locate the archive, the effect on biblical scholarship would be be profound. Instead of relying on half-legible inscriptions and fragments of clay and stone, historians would suddenly have access to huge amounts of information, set down not to advance religious ideas but to record secular events. The historical accuracy of much of the Bible could be settled, one way or the other, almost at a stroke...
...updating the script, Barbara Benedek and David Rayfiel have too often substituted topical one-liners (some of them quite funny) for well-joined badinage. This has a distancing effect. Even worse, someone made a disastrous decision to lengthen the early sequence in which Sabrina finds herself in Paris. Wilder got through her maturation at montage speed; Pollack lingers over it for 20 inconsequential minutes, a bring-down from which the movie never quite recovers...
...clear water, a gray flicker cast on the riverbed below, whose pebbles are suggested by the white streaks and mottling within the stone itself. Thus one has the strange impression of both looking at an opaque, polished stone form and gazing into transparency. It isn't a trick; the effect rises, swims into view, from the physical nature of the marble, and yet it is extraordinarily poetic, even dramatic...
...CRITICAL QUESTION IS, WOULD SENDing Americans to die in Bosnia have any long-term beneficial effect on the local inhabitants or on the U.S.? If the answer is no, then why are we sending them? There is no military mission or goal to be achieved by American troops in Bosnia, just as there was no mission or goal in Vietnam. The religious hatreds and the war in Bosnia have been ongoing for hundreds of years. Putting American kids in the path of certain death and injury will not accomplish a thing. The most American troops could accomplish would...