Word: letters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alter significantly. "I have my own areas of interest, the economy, things I'd like to concentrate on as things settle down," he said. "But you are not going to see anything different. His Majesty has given me a mission, and I will carry it out to the letter...
...copy of the Geneva Bible has been discovered in the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington and to the delight of advocates, words are underlined that reappear in the masterpieces. For example, the declaration "I am that I am" from Exodus 3: 14 is found not only in a letter De Vere wrote to his father-in-law in 1584 but also in "Sonnet 121." In The Merry Wives of Windsor, a Falstaff speech refers to a "weaver's beam," two words highlighted in the Bible (II Samuel 21: 19). Oxfordians can cite scores of other examples linking De Vere...
Members of SASI, an offshoot of the South Asian Association (SAA), hope to educate the Harvard community about a region inhabited by one-fifth of the world's population. With a sass befitting its anti-establishment stance,SASI members have taken education into their ownhands with letter-writing campaigns and otherpolitical tactics...
...same thing as she vacations on the Cape, sips hot tea, evades suave advances and the advice of her boss to get over it. As she broods jogging along the beach, she stops long enough to pick up a green bottle with her new destiny inside: a mysterious love letter to a Catherine from an equally enigmatic...
Luckily, Wright doesn't take anything too seriously until later in the movie when she's forced to play this silly melodrama straight. As a research lackey for a Chicago Tribune columnist, she finally does something fun as she tracks down the origin of the letter. Her selfish motivation is oddly reminiscent of Meg Ryan's valiant quest in Sleepless in Seattle. But whereas the latter is whimsical and heart-warming, the Penn-Costner combination is a bust from the start. In fact, Wright has more chemistry with the man she initially mistakes for G than with Costner, her dream...