Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beloved has been pegged as a heavy Oscar favorite, mainly because of its important subject matter and prestigious ensemble, and it has many admirable qualities. But it does not reach the powerful fever pitch of a film such as Saving Private Ryan, where viewers are so riveted that they can't take their eyes off the screen. For all its grace and dignity, Beloved is a movie to be respected but not loved...
...days of "Size Does Matter" and "Bigger is Better" can a pure human drama still affect us? Leave it to Meryl Streep to squash all doubts about that. Her latest acting showcase, One True Thing, tells such an incredibly small story that it puts all the vast, sweeping movies of recent memory to shame. The film tells the story of a single family and manages to weave a stunningly intricate emotional epic. The main narrative unfolds in a flashback. Reporter Ellen Gulden is being questioned by a district attorney about assisting in her cancer-stricken mother's death. Using characters...
...parents saw signs early on that he seemed to be fighting an internal battle, but no matter how hard they affirmed and encouraged my brother, he seemed to be drifting away from his responsibilities and his dreams...
...business, perception is key, so rankings do matter. Besides, we'd all like to be at the number one school," said one student...
...functions and offers for cheap futons, publicized his lecture that afternoon at the Graduate School of Education (GSE); his evening reading at the Signet went, with the exception of a few notices sent to student email lists, almost entirely unpromoted. Somehow it did not seem to matter: his lecture at the GSE drew a large audience, perhaps a hundred people, and the small space for his reading at the Signet filled up so quickly that additional seating had to be brought in to accommodate the crowd...