Word: frailness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where the forces of Christianity fight for survival in an often hostile world. He is an intellectual Pope and a warrior Pope. But he is also, and increasingly, a praying Pope, a man rarely off his knees. He is even coming to resemble Pope John physically: an old, increasingly frail gentleman, still doing his formidable best to pray for and guide a suffering humanity and save it from the consequences of its weaknesses and follies...
...Such hopes, always frail, evaporated last week. They have been replaced by fear of a wider war, one that may bring the national army of Croatia back into the battle against the Serbs. The fighting around Bihac exemplifies the ethnic confusion of Bosnia. Bihac is surrounded by Serbs, but because it sits at what is now an international border, the Serbs to the north and west -- self- proclaimed rulers of the Krajina region -- are in Croatia, while the ones to the east and south are in Bosnia...
Understandable enough--when you're on a five-game skid, on matter where the losses come from, the mind becomes a little frail. And that can kill you against a team like B.U., a side which swaggers all over the field with an upbeat attitude, even on a relatively...
...film has its share of scabrous banter -- recombinant four-letter words galore -- but the conceit of Clerks is that foul-mouthed Jersey louts have elaborate vocabularies and pensive personalities. When Randal isn't shocking the frail with a list of porn-movie titles, he is offering such bartender wisdom to Dante as this: "That seems to be the leitmotiv of your life, ever backing down." Insults cascade into insights; obscenity snowballs into philosophy. Keeping the mind alert and the tongue sharp -- for the eloquent jerks in Clerks, that's more than a defense mechanism. It's a vocation...
...missed out on the nuclear family that in the movie Forrest finally gets to tend. In pumping up Jenny's role, screenwriter Eric Roth transferred all of Forrest's flaws -- and most of the excesses Americans committed in the '60s and '70s to her. Wright's Jenny is a frail soul in tailspin, a battered child in a beautiful woman's body. And Forrest is her redeemer. The suspense of the movie is whether she will allow him to save...