Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cuba Gooding, Jr., may have stolen the show in Jerry Maguire, the 1997 movie was built around the football player's slicked-up dealmaker. James Bond movies used to paint the Russians as the enemy; the most recent Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies, vilified Elliot Carver, a media mogul intent on boosting ratings...
...forages for the bones of fiction. She picks an obsession--the search in the high Arctic for a northwest passage to the Pacific--that now seems bizarre. Ships were crushed. Men died of scurvy, watched by healthy Inuit tribesmen who were scorned as beasts. Ill-fated expeditions followed, intent on rescue, science or glory. One of these is Barrett's stage, on which two sharply opposed men, a bookish naturalist and a flamboyant expedition chief, struggle for the right to tell, or embellish, shabby truths. The chief ships an Inuit boy and his mother to the U.S., live specimens...
...title your article "The Sword of Islam," and why use the metaphor of Pakistani rulers "waving the scimitar of Islam" [WORLD, Sept. 28], unless the intent is to portray all forms of Muslim political activism as stridently militant? It is wrong to perpetuate such crude stereotypes. Pakistan is a country in which a politically and religiously diverse populace is struggling for its survival in the face of many serious challenges. You could have given your readers probing insights into how the country is faring on all these fronts and how the different political appeals to so-called Islam are being...
...church of the Sagrada Famolia and the greatest architect that Barcelona, or Spain itself, has ever produced. Back in 1992, the auxiliary bishop of Barcelona, Joan Carrera, called the beatification move "a legitimate and reasonable proposal." In a pastoral letter last Aug. 23, Ricard Maria Cardinal Carles declared his intent to begin the long and labyrinthine process toward beatifying "the universal Catalan architect." There is even an Association for the Beatification of Antoni Gaudi, headed by an architect named Jose Manuel Almuzara...
...wanted to inspire our delegates to return to their respective institutions with the intent and ability to educate and empower members of their community," Chung said...