Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...working as a waitress in a roadside restaurant, at once harried and patient (and wonderfully authentic) as she tries to raise two daughters. The younger of them, Shade (Fairuza Balk), narrates the story of a crucial few months in their lives. She has a busy, dreamy mind. She may moon over the romantic fictions shown at a little Hispanic theater and end up falling for the Latino boy who works as its projectionist. But she's also up and doing -- looking for (and eventually finding) her lost dad, arranging a really awful blind date for her mother. Her sister Trudi...
...Harvard probably finds itself, because of thedistinction of its faculty, less able to offer itspeople the moon than less distinguished placesare," Schauer says...
...What about Harry Truman's comment after he took over as President when Roosevelt died, "I felt like the sun and the moon and the stars had all fallen on my shoulders"? As you are about to embark on this almost certain race for the White House, don't you worry at some times whether you too are worthy of bearing that weight...
...drive that has rarely been seen in the U.S. except in times of great national crises or foreign challenges. "I think we know that small interventions won't work," says Brookings economist Henry Aaron, "and therefore we have to decide whether this is a problem like going to the moon or winning World War II or Operation Desert Storm, where we say we're going to pour in the resources we think are necessary to do the job." In Aaron's pessimistic view, there is currently "no evidence of that kind of commitment in the nation...
...Boston Marathon's 1992 offi- cial program stats that this year marks the20th anniversary of women's participation in themarathon. "Men were walking on the moon beforewomen were allowed to run in Boston," the programsays...