Word: intact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Agnes is not merely an innocent; she is also a 21-year-old woman who has given birth and who suffers from a cornucopia of mental imbalances Mother Miriam struggles to preserve Agnes's innocence, even if doing so means leaving intact her mental disorder, Dr. Livingstone, though, fights for the young nun's mind at the expense of her innocence. Dramatically, the conflict between faith and reason is perfectly convincing, largely because Plummer performs the role of Agnes with quivering openness and absolute accuracy. Something in her gentle, husky voice--genetic courtesy of Mother Tammy Grimes--seems tailor made...
...result of all the forces at work in the area rather than as the shaper of them, that perception was right. If the statesman acts as the helmsman in storm-tossed seas, Faisal performed masterfully in keeping his fragile bark always heading into the wind and having it emerge intact-no mean achievement, when one considers the fate of countries all around...
...Juddleson for the Hurely St. playground. "We asked four neighborhood kids to help us build the floor, and then we included them in the design, first by depicting them roller skating and then allowing them to write graffiti around their picture." Koplow explains. The ornately decorated piece has remained intact...
...rule: when in doubt, move slowly. Striking a pose of quiet mystery, she eyes her partner and carefully mimics his crab-eating etiquette, staying at least two bites behind him. When dinner is over, she hasn't engaged him in brilliant conversation, but at least her poise is intact...
...published in a set of 13 paperback books in Iran last spring. Though the volumes have been sold in Tehran for months, for about $8 a set, the contents became widely known only as the books began to be distributed in Europe in recent weeks. Many documents were found intact by the embassy attackers but others had been shredded by frantic U.S. personnel. These have been painstakingly pasted back together by the militants. The papers were of different colors-blue, pink, yellow and white-which helped the reassembly process. Even so, the militants might have needed 40 hours to paste...