Word: gracefully
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...elegant North Carolina novelist and poet has been examining the eternal puzzle of families as they love and hurt one another, come together and burst apart. The unlucky ones are beset by betrayal and murder and suicide. The lucky ones are brought to the brink of destruction but through grace and common sense find a way to live in the universe and with each other...
...wash off the light kiss of an infected friend. But others find the option of heroic devotion. David, now nursemaid to the ailing Sean, covers up when Sean's boss calls, and diapers the incontinent patient. Because David is also standing a potential deathwatch on his future, his caring grace is spectacular. This is what love...
...foreign policy has been embarassing to those Germans who believe that all of Germany's past, and in particular the Third Reich, must be remembered when trying to master the present. Kohl believes that absolution can be achieved simply by claiming die Gnade der spaten Geburt (literally, the grace of late birth, referring to the fact that he was only...
...Hartman, then, nothing is more destructive to human growth than the + mistaken belief that if a people does not have everything (i.e., all the land), it has nothing. The issue for him is whether Jews can say grace without being totally satisfied. Even more important, the question is whether religious loyalty requires believing that there is only one way. Or does Judaism affirm that no human community has access to the total truth? In responding to these questions, says Hartman, "the most profound Jewish values are at stake. Israel cannot claim the allegiance of Jews everywhere if the spiritual content...
...underground. His big-studio debut is a gaudy, affectionate memoir of his youth, when Drapes (punks) and Squares rumbled for the heart of a girl named Allison (perky Amy Locane). Waters' hole card is Johnny Depp, the winsome tough from TV's 21 Jump Street, who radiates big- screen grace and swagger as Cry-Baby -- no easy trick, since he is guying his own image...