Word: master
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spent six years in the field of social workcounseling abused children. When I needed to earnmy master's, I realized I could not incur another$30,000 to $80,000 worth of loans on top of my$30,000 from undergrad, only to earn $30,000 as acounselor," another student said. "Tired ofworking three jobs, I left this important andworthwhile work to take a higher-paying...
Over the weekend, however, Columbia proved the sole master of that scheme as it dominated the Crimson offensive and defensive lines...
...greatest impact on me. Seeing this film was one of the most intense emotional experiences of my teenage years. From then until the time, many years later, when I played a small part in his film Dreams, my admiration for the mental agility and physical energy of this great master (who at 82 was still climbing ladders on the set) never waned. While it saddens me that he is gone, I know that his genius--which allowed him to achieve much, much more than most of us could ever hope for--will live on forever in his films...
...finding from Soviet archives, for example, is that the Soviet leaders held their ideological views far more strongly than Western analysts had thought. The result was that the Soviets often acted against their best interests, mystifying those in the West, who believed the Soviets had a rational and cunning master plan. Comments in the series by former Soviet officials illustrate this new thesis...
...genius of Ronin is that it slyly but quite openly acknowledges the abstract state at which the action film has arrived. The title is the Japanese word for samurai who have lost their master and must hire themselves out as amoral and dispassionate mercenaries. The script, by J.D. Zeik and Richard Weisz (a pseudonym for David Mamet), applies the term to former CIA and KGB agents who are now obliged to work for terrorists and other international thugs, with no ideology to justify their exertions. It sets a bunch of them--including Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Stellan Skarsgard...