Word: meres
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defense worked hard to keep the puck away from Jonas, holding Northeastern to a mere four shots on target in the first period...
...barely two years as CEO, Ivester appears to have done what no mere soft-drink rival could have hoped to accomplish--dimmed the luster of one of the world's brightest brands. It wasn't just Coca-Cola's seven-quarter-long profit slide. When dozens of Belgian schoolchildren fell sick after drinking Coke products last June, Ivester maintained what looked like an arrogant silence for more than a week before traveling to Belgium to apologize. (The incident resulted in a 65 million-can recall.) Nor did he burnish his company's image by failing to promote Carl Ware, senior...
...lists this winter--it's good, but it's not quite that deep--but I'll be damned if it doesn't have the wittiest opening credit sequence of the year. It's a not-so-subtle allusion to 1950's credits wiz Saul Bass, and the mere echo works wonders to situate the film within a specific time period, genre and tone. You can practically smell the Lucky Strikes. Even if you don't recognize the reference you'll appreciate the handiwork, and John Seale's meticulous cinematography consistently honors the old masters of that time...
...Like a complex organ hymn being plinked out on an electric keyboard, the film plays the same basic melody as the memoir but fails to bring out the nuances of McCourt's writing, while these nuances are precisely what made Angela's Ashes a great work rather than a mere string of anecdotes...
Meanwhile, she played a big role in the Crimson defense which held the Mountaineers shooting to a mere 26.5 percent in the opening half...