Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last year, the Harvard football team, fresh off one of its best seasons ever, marched into Columbia on top of the world...
Only someone raised in the glare of Fleet Street could consider Hollywood a "breath of fresh air." That's how PRINCE EDWARD, Queen Elizabeth's youngest son, described Los Angeles last week when he visited to drum up business for his fledgling TV company. Edward told the New York Times that unlike Angelenos, Britons "hate anyone who succeeds." It turns out they hate perceived traitors even more. Member of Parliament John Cryer pointed out that the Prince "has never had to do anything for his wealth," while the Times of London editorialized, "It ill-behooves a prince to diminish...
...what's going to come out of him is going to be soothing or scalding. "It's good, it's intelligent," says Allen about Rock's stand-up. "He sucks the audience in quickly and keeps them." And his unpredictability is part of what makes his comic take so fresh. "Somebody should always be offended," Rock says. "Somebody in your life should always be like, 'Why did you have to do that?' Always. That's just being a real artist. That's the difference between Scorsese and Disney...
...some point the sheer mass of it simply overwhelms dubiety. The fact that everything that happens in the movie comes as a surprise to its participants helps too. They apparently have not seen all the movies or read all the books about adolescent angst. So their responses are fresh. And felt...
Though this "diagnosis" alone sheds virtually no fresh light on the subject, Smith--author of bios of CBS founder William Paley and international socialite Pamela Harriman--amply and sympathetially documents Diana's precarious mental state and her need for sustained professional help, a need that could never have been met while she remained within the netherworlds of Buckingham Palace and celebrity hangers...