Word: gracefulness
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...vast, untapped market," says Jonathan Bock, a former sitcom writer (Hangin' with Mr. Cooper), whose Grace Hill Media helps sell Hollywood films to Christian tastemakers. He pitches media outlets like Catholic Digest and The 700 Club and has created sermons and Bible-study guides and marketed such movies as The Lord of the Rings, Signs, The Rookie and, yes, Elf. "The ground was softened before The Passion," says Bock. "There are hundreds of Christian critics and Jewish writers and ministers who are writing about films." And millions of the faithful who see them. A July 2004 study by George Barna...
...classic - I usually write about people who not only helped define an earlier era but were moderately famous. Elvis and Astaire, Dr. Seuss and Lenny Bruce. By the standard of fame, Phyllis Jenkins doesn?t exactly qualify. Her name doesn?t appear on many Websites; her exploits don?t grace nearly as many biographies and memoirs as they should. Her death earlier this year occasioned an admiring, admirable obituary in the New York Sun, but the New York Times didn?t acknowledge her demise...
...detemig^i (digress). The point is that what we don?t know can diminish us; that the world is full of wonders we haven?t noticed; that there are plenty of exemplary people who don?t get into People - though Phyllis did grace the pages of Life magazine in 1953. In fact, Phyllis lived one of the fullest, most fascinating lives I know. And I?m sure I don?t know a tenth of what she did. But what I know was choice. I think it?s worth sharing with readers who could benefit from learning about an extraordinary lady...
Though he has just weeks to match their summer output, Farrar cautiously predicted that he would not allow himself a grace period in the season’s early goings...
...sure enough, the food at the University of Dar es Salaam was awful. Mornings are a piece of fried bread (called chapati), a blockish hunk of porridge and a cup of foul tea. The saving grace, of course, is that these unappetizing and meager tidings cost around 400 shillings, the equivalent of 35 cents...