Word: lone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seventh grade, I decided that I was a Republican. When my social studies teacher asked the class with which political party each of us identified, I was the lone Republican in that private school classroom of twenty-five wealthy students. Despite my northeastern address, my female gender and my marked lack of family fortune, I knew that the Republican party was my home...
...fire marshal ordered the festivities shut down. Wallace went to his truck. A friend took the wheel of the GMC Suburban, and the rapper got into the passenger seat (he didn't have a driver's license). Moments after they left the parking lot, according to witnesses, a lone gunman in a passing car fired several shots from a 9-mm handgun through the passenger side of the vehicle, hitting the 24-year-old rapper. He died on the way to the hospital...
Nominees: Fargo; Jerry Maguire; Lone Star; Secrets & Lies; Shine...
...characters than for its script, but that's where it all started. Jerry Maguire dared not only to turn a star vehicle into an actual character piece but also to create several likable, believable men and women (and it gave America "Show me the money!") John Sayles's Lone Star was overlooked in every other category, but its dense novelistic structure makes it the most literate of the bunch...
...Will Win: With Globe winner Larry Flynt mysteriously absent, all three leaders are headed for a photo finish. Lone Star is the favorite among screenwriters, but Fargo has been racking up the pre-show awards--and weird speech patterns did the trick for Pulp Fiction...