Word: exalts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...offering yourself up to fate. On a campus that is known to be less than conducive to coupling, let's thank the council for helping us to cherish the one week of the year when we won't need to wait for Thursday night at the Grille to exalt in random romance...
...Swedish Academy of Letters awarded Heaney the prize "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past...
...gore, gangsta rap, even outright pornography are not some sort of alien interstellar dust malevolently drifting down on us, but products actively sought out and beloved by millions. When fighting to abolish the NEA and other government support for the arts, conservatives are quick to condemn "cultural alitism" and exalt the majority tastes served by the marketplace. So how can they turn around and blame entertainment corporations for following the money and giving mass audiences what they want? Talk about alitism...
Columbus Day should be used, LaFontant believes, not to exalt the man who "discovered" the New World, but rather to reflect on what his voyage meant for the people already on this continent and those who followed him across the ocean, both as free immigrants and as slaves...
...minors. Argues sponsor Alan Hevesi, an assemblyman: "Where there is excessive violence in a film, children are barred from admission, and that's constitutionally protected." But Dean Mullaney, a Forestville, Calif., publisher of a line of cards featuring fbi agents and crooks, insists that such products do not exalt criminals. "Silence of the Lambs won the Academy Award," he says, "but it's not a glorification of cannibalism...