Word: hand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago. Maybe the director's increasing elusiveness had its effect. He had quit talking to reporters years ago, and it seemed to the media's increasingly resentful minions that he got around in public even less than he formerly had, which was not very much. On the other hand, Eyes Wide Shut did encompass the three elements that legitimately capture the public's attention--story, stars, director--in a particularly piquant package...
...Yeah, but it ended there. They just shook my hand. I had the largest black book, but I couldn't do anything with...
...violence. They are yoked in the politician's sermon like Sodom and Gomorrah or Bonnie and Clyde. Their effect on the young is pernicious, folks: film violence will put a gun in a kid's hand; film sex will grow hair on his palm. But this argument didn't come from anyone who actually goes to movies. Sure, there's film violence, so much that it's numbing. But where...
Redwood says both sides have turned the argument over affirmative action into "a false debate that doesn't deal with the real problems." On one hand, there is what she calls "white noise" from Connerly and his ilk, who have defined the issue in terms of racial preferences instead of equal opportunity for women and minorities. On the other, there is the unwillingness of some affirmative-action proponents to look hard at blacks' lagging performance on standardized tests...
...classroom. The teacher, Marisol Duarte, saw only subtle changes at first. But two months later, when the kids wrote their final poems of the term, Raynaldo's reading had jumped from first- to third-grade level. And his poem had the glow of a prayer: "...the beauty of the hand of God/never let go of my mother and father/of the silver night/of the city so quiet and the birds singing like diamonds." "It's powerful," his teacher says. "Now it's not even college as a choice but as a given...