Word: feasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is isn't especially revealing or eloquent. However, this ceases to matter very much as the breathtaking cinematography tells its own story, accompanied by a sonorously haunting score by Philip Glass. Kundun's slow pace may cause occasional restlessness, but never boredom. It's too much of a feast for the eyes to lose its power of fascination, and its poetry of color, perspective and motion lingers long after what's actually said is forgotten. --Lynn...
Though ominous harbingers of trouble had been in the air for days, most of South Viet Nam lazed in uneasy truce, savoring the happiest and holiest holiday of the Vietnamese year. All but a few Americans retired to their compounds to leave the feast of Tet to the Vietnamese celebrators filling the streets. The Year of the Monkey had begun, and every Vietnamese knew that it was wise to make merry while there was yet time; in the twelve-year Buddhist lunar cycle, 1968 is a grimly inauspicious year...
...usual, Valentine's Day weekend will be a feast of delights for some and a test of endurance for others. As many writers have noted on these pages, love on this campus can be hard to find; when found, it can be even more of a challenge to find the time to enjoy it. This year, whether the long weekend seems like a blessing or a burden, it can at least give us time to have fun, with someone special or just with good friends--and to reflect on where we'd like to spend next Valentine...
...Tigers are expected to feast on the rest of the league. A few sports pundits have remarked that the weak level of Ivy play will hurt Princeton's seeding in the NCAA tournament. What a shame...
...proclaimed the International Year of the Ocean by the United Nations, conservation groups hope to make the swordfish a symbol for all marine creatures threatened by overfishing. So, welcome to the "Give the Swordfish a Break" campaign, to be kicked off this week with a well-publicized swordfishless feast at Felidia, a tony New York City restaurant...