Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before exiting the stage, each group gave Smith a gift. The Harvard Vietnamese Society gave Smith a coneshaped straw hat, while Kuumba gave Smith and his wife Kente cloth stoles. The foundation also gave Smith a Harvard sweatshirt, which he wore during the show...
...second, Botterill took advantage of the gift, and banged home a second goal, bringing the score to 2-0 Harvard...
...uncomplicated character, and he has fascinating qualities--a genius at political campaigning, for example. (I grapple desperately to recover the better side.) But my fury sees only that his seducer's gift of nuanced empathy makes him a liar worthy of Oscars ("I want you to listen to me, I'm going to say this again...") and that his every word is coated with Vaseline...
Stephanie and I get off to a more promising start. She spends several minutes effusing about my good character. She looks barely out of her teens, but she's more sensitive than Miss Leena. "You're a writer?" she inquires nervously, adding, "I have a spiritual gift. If someone writes about it... ell, it just doesn't help." I excuse myself...
Despite her obvious talent for the splashy, one could argue that Powell's gift best manifests itself in smaller, brocade-free dramas such as Hilary and Jackie. Powell's mod clothes never overwhelm the tale of the relationship between the impassioned cellist Jacqueline du Pre and her sister, but instead lend a keen visual intensity to the women's profound differences. As Jackie becomes increasingly famous--and depressed--her knits seem to get more blindingly pink and blue; Hilary, meanwhile, recedes into neutrals. The look stays with you--Powell's work, it seems, never fades to black...