Word: golden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...girls as the stars of adventure stories, which is why it's been such a pleasure to see the recent surge in books featuring young girls as such heroes. Consider, for example, Jostein Gaarder's erudite epic Sophie's World or Philip Pullman's Carnegie Award-winning fantasy The Golden Compass. Both of these books feature young women as the epic heroes of their own journeys of exploration and education, both were first released in Europe and both have a thing about Scandinavia and snow. Brian Hall's new coming-of-age epic, The Saskiad, has these things in common...
...Will Win: Ignore everything I just said. This is still Hollywood. No one would dare vote against Lauren Bacall, whose smart, glorious career has yielded no prior nominations, and whose dragon-mom character in Mirror would not take kindly to rejection. Bacall has won the Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe Awards, and she's sure to give a helluva speech...
...Marvin's Room has been seen by so few people that her chances are slim. Watson was the critics' darling of the year, but it's hard to imagine, say, Lauren Bacall voting for a character who gives hand jobs to strangers on a bus. That leaves Cannes and Golden Globe winner Blethyn, and Screen Actors Guild champ McDormand, both in Best Picture nominees, both highly deserving...
Many residents who have spent all their lives in blighted urban areas have expressed resentment at ICIC initiatives, which they say descend from Harvard with a golden...
...Frederic Golden...