Word: moment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goes back in memory to his boyhood days of picking apples, his teenage courtship of Rachel, his service in Italy during World War II. Though the narrative is as vagrant as Snow Falling on Cedars was rooted, Guterson's gift for spinning atmospheric spells has not deserted him, and moment after moment flashes into life with the quick vividness of a photograph: the men in war going out "in mattress covers sewn into snow tunics and in creepers made of tightly knotted rope," the young couple romancing as "the apples hung heavy in the late-day sun, the leaves stirred...
...favorite View moment was when Meredith Vieira said she didn't wear underwear...
...next game, Potvin had the game of his life, stopping 55 shots out of 57, which tied a team record. After the game, in a moment I now appreciate as a narcissistic epiphany, I pulled him away from a group of reporters to ask him about my goaltending. "Honestly, you were good," he said after much hounding. "You were very good. You made some good saves." Our experience, he suggested, may have contributed to his performance. As he left to get on the bus to the Islanders' game in Toronto, he turned to me and asked, "Can you come with...
There's a moment at the very end of David Mamet's American Buffalo,just before the lights go down, when it suddenly becomes clear that for the past two hours you have done nothing but watch three men talk in a single room. The revelation, though simple, can be shocking...
...beyond Commencement, knowing a bit about betrayal often means avoiding it. Date-rape involves betrayal of trust. So does adultery. So does deliberate sabotage of a project by some team member anxious to advance at the expense of the group--perhaps by seeming to solve something at the last moment. So does embezzlement by a partner. What are the early warning signs of betrayal? I know no patterns, no generic signs. But I know that without alertness, without some moral acuity, no cataloguing of warning signs, no scrap of advice proves useful...