Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...causes more disappointment than glorious realization. Sex and religion are burdens to mankind because of their inability to fulfill their enticing promises...
...Souvenirs: Propaganda for the Front and for the War is the work of the Ayatullah's Revolutionary Guards and was intended to embolden the young volunteers in suicidal human-wave attacks. The bottom corner of each page of the book bears a printed blood-red splotch, symbolizing glorious martyrdom. There are photographs showing the Ayatullah in the midst of adoring Iranian masses, and crude political cartoons depicting a crumbling Star of David or a malevolent Menachem Begin loading a cannon with shells provided by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. A message emblazoned on the back cover reads...
...rescued and restored to his patrimony by a passing explorer (Ian Holm, who symbolizes humanity at its best). Unfortunately, he fits as uneasily into English society as he did into simian society, despite the loving fuss made over him by his grandfather (the late Ralph Richardson in all his glorious eccentricity). The old man's death, when he attempts to break free of lordly constraint to celebrate his grandson's return, and the death of Tarzan's ape "father," at the hands of a panicky civilization, turn the noble savage into a premature existentialist permanent outsider, last...
...glorious it would all be. For the past two weeks, the title the one a Harvard men's basketball team has never seized--had been tantalizingly dangling just out of the cagers' grasp. And after each successive Crimson victory, it all seemed to have finally come within reach. They could feel it. They began to anticipate the sweet taste which accompanies being the best...
...inventive and to do different things. We didn't know how the music would be received, but we felt very strongly about it, and we stayed with that commitment." As the principal choreographer in the partnership, Dean was asked the source of his inspiration. With that glorious moment still glistening in the mind's eye, his reply was as simple as it was self-evident: "I'm inspired by the music. We spend a lot of time on the ice listening to the music. Simply listening...