Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush could also lay out a vision of Western goals that transcend the cold war struggle. The necessity to contain Soviet influence often led U.S. policymakers to suppress America's natural idealism and support regimes whose only redeeming grace was their anti-Communism. To the extent that Gorbachev's new thinking makes that less necessary, it frees the U.S. and the West to pursue more positive goals. Among them: attacking environmental problems that cannot be solved on a national basis; shaping aggressive new methods for containing the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons; reducing world famine and poverty; resolving...
...actors Eric Stoltz (Mask) and Penelope Ann Miller (Biloxi Blues) portray the young lovers, and it is hard to imagine that their soda-shop infatuation scene has ever been performed better. Miller, though, is not quite up to the last act's demands of kittenish adolescence combined with otherworldly grace. The rest of the 27- member cast is solid, and Peter Maloney is memorable as Emily's jocular yet practical father...
...Roseanne's portly life partner, John Goodman gives a performance of great humor, heart and physical grace. Barr, by contrast, is still a novice in the acting department. But the show is an unmistakable expression of her comic persona. Born in Salt Lake City to a Jewish family, Barr, 36, quit high school and moved to Colorado, married at 21 and had three children. While working as a cocktail waitress, she started appearing at Denver comedy clubs. After moving to Los Angeles in 1985, she became a regular at the Comedy Store and landed some TV guest shots, gaining...
...specific accomplishments at Harvard were numerous. However, to highlight his resume would be to risk overshadowing his extraordinary qualities as a human being. His family, his classmates and his multitude of friends will above all remember Tom for his sense of humor, his wonderful company and his quiet grace...
...remarkable: "The furniture was of no discernible period or inspiration and I think if you studied the dressing- table long enough you might go insane." Cheever's correspondence, as selected, edited and annotated by his son Benjamin, amounts to an entirely new story -- long, engrossing and recounted with characteristic grace...