Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the start, his extraordinary athleticism, expressive grace, impeccable timing, endless inventiveness and genius for hard work set Chaplin apart. In 1910 he made his first trip to America, with Fred Karno's Speechless Comedians. In 1913 he joined Sennett's Keystone Studios in New York City. Although his first film, Making a Living (1914), brought him nationwide praise, he was unhappy with the slapstick speed, cop chases and bathing-beauty escapades that were Sennett's specialty. The advent of movies in the late 1890s had brought full visibility to the human personality, to the corporeal self that print...
Track and field stars like freshman high jumper Dora Gyorffy only grace Harvard Yard once in a lifetime...
...championship chase next season. After losing just two players from this year's squad--junior Kate Schutt's eligibility is up after she spent two years at the Berklee College of Music--Harvard will welcome back Shewchuck and Mleczko in the fall, and a couple of new faces will grace the ice in Bright Hockey Center...
...extracurriculars were my saving grace. They made me feel as though I was making some sort of impact of Harvard; they were my way of making my mark. At that point, I concluded that I wasn't meant to be a consultant, doctor or even a lawyer. For the first time in three years, I couldn't follow the crowd. I had to follow my heart. Once I decided to trust myself, I realized what I really wanted was to try something out of the mainstream for the stereotypical Harvard student--journalism...
...these films there's usually an adult whose failures of understanding are a big part of the problem. In The Horse Whisperer, that's the damaged girl's mother (Kristin Scott Thomas). She has her virtues, most notably a determination not to let either Grace, who has lost a leg in the accident, or her mount succumb to despair. But she's a driven, unforgiving sort of woman--chic, brittle, chilly, not at all ideal-mom material. To put the point bluntly, we know what she needs, which is a good horse whisping...