Word: forrester
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Forrest Gump might have compared a dean search at Harvard University to a box of chocolates: you never know what you're going...
Saigon fell on April 30, 1975, but Vietnam is still with us. A politician's war record--or antiwar record--evokes scorn or approbation; the masterfully manipulative Forrest Gump makes adults weep; we fret over quagmires, and still we can hear the air torn by helicopter blades and see that canted, top-heavy map on the evening news and recall precisely our draft-lottery number or that of our brother or son. Some brothers and sons did not return; they are still with us as well...
...also has a reputation for being an engaging teacher. "She's very humorous in class and tries to make us feel comfortable," says Forrest N. Anderson '98. For example, to demonstrate Newton's third law, that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, Franklin rode a cart fitted with a fire extinguisher to propel herself across the room...
Ending weeks of Oscar hype with an unsuspenseful flourish, favorite Forrest Gump topped contender Pulp Fiction for Best Picture, winning a grand total of six awards to Pulp's lone statuette. Tom Hanks (Gump) was Best Actor and Jessica Lange (Blue Sky) Best Actress; Martin Landau (Ed Wood) and Dianne Wiest (Bullets over Broadway) took Supporting honors...
...then again, other films conspire to leave us still deeper in the dark. Why couldn't "Billy Madison" have been the main character in "Forrest Gump," for example? They're equally stupid and both bear the name of a leader from south of the Mason-Dixon line. Or how about "True Lies" as a new title for "Basic Instinct?" How about "Basic Instinct" for just about every movie with a nude Sharon Stone...