Word: glowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Claverly's jalopy, however, has its advantages--if one likes glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling and its easily disconnectable light...
...design made most of us gawk; we marveled at the way our dates of birth were actually part of the card, not raised like the other information. We felt a glow of pride at the prominent display of the word "Harvard." The antique-looking background gave us goosebumps as we contemplated those who had passed before us. The nifty door-opening magnetic strip assured us that Harvard really is on the leading edge of technology...
...letdown is understandable. Midwives often endure depression as the fruit of their labors is enjoyed by others. Yet the wisest have always known that a settlement imposed by outsiders rarely holds, that the end of enmity requires that the combatants themselves desire it. They know too that the glow of face-to-face agreements invariably fades as the vital enabling details are fashioned. Thus while Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin reached beyond Washington's mediation in the 1970s, cementing the eventual Egyptian-Israeli treaty required Jimmy Carter's skill at Camp David. The play today is similar. As only they...
...mutes the melodrama inherent in Aaron's encounters with crime, illness and loss. Aaron must improvise his response to events without fully understanding them, and that comes closer to the truth about boyhood than most movies do. It was a directorial mistake to bathe the images in a soft glow. But that visual error is not compounded psychologically. The film has a tough core, and in a time when movies about the troubles of little boys are a sentimental subgenre and dysfunction is being too easily overcome, there is something exemplary about this smart little movie...
...second group in three days to defect from the Liberal Democrats, is considered the most likely to pull together a coalition able to oust what is left of Japan's unruly and unroyal dynasty. Once the managers of Japan's rise to economic-superpower status under the warm glow of its alliance with the U.S., the Liberal Democrats today are noted for a single, sordid attribute: corruption. Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa sank to a lowly 9% approval rating two weeks ago after he buckled under party pressure and failed to deliver promised anticorruption legislation, despite intense popular demands...