Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know my real parents. They are the people who raised me. I wonder when everyone will realize that the title of Mom or Dad is not a birthright but one that is earned, one that you work for every day of your child's life. It will be a glorious time for America's children when so-called adults stop treating children as property and start treating them as people. JOHN F. BOYNTON III Evanston...
...have done Carousel or Twelfth Night without Crowley. "Bob's aesthetic is mine as well: that a theater world should be poetic, a world of the imagination; that it should be hospitable to actors; that it should be bold in the use of colors." That would account for the glorious pools, and the pathways that slide together at the end to bring the lovers together. As Hytner says, "We are also both totally shameless about feeling that now and then you have to give the audience a visual lift, a visual thrill...
...BLACKMAN was reporting a story in Maine when she learned of one town's unique approach to containing health costs. It's the subject of this week's AMERICAN SCENE. Blackman, yet another Washington-based correspondent (they do get around, don't they?), describes Maine as a "glorious, crystal-clear state where everyone is nice to each other and honest. I found it to be a lovely change from the Capitol." That's not necessarily a reflection on all of official Washington. Blackman just finished writing Seasons of Her Life, a biography of Secretary of State Madeline Albright, which will...
Once, when George Bush and President Clinton were seated on either side of the host at one of those dreadful Washington dinners, rescued only by the glorious ring of the Marine Band, Bush leaned over to the host and whispered, "The thing I miss most about the White House is the Marine Band." A moment later, Clinton, from the other side, confided to the same man, "The thing I enjoy most about being President is the Marine Band...
...bright to begin with, to handle. But Gallo, who also wrote, directed and scored Buffalo '66 , is a smart young filmmaker, not least in his casting. Gazzara, angrily mourning his lost career as a local lounge singer, and Huston, obsessing on the Bills' football frustrations, are glorious eccentrics. And Christina Ricci, as the tap dancer Billy forces to play his faux fiance, is just lovely. She falls into instant love with her abductor, and with a kind of patient ferocity redeems his sanity...