Word: newfound
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the added experience gained from the junior nationals, Harvard Coach Harry Parker put Sharis in the Harvard varsity boat the following spring and Sharis' newfound magic touch continued to rub off, as the Crimson eight went on to win the national championship in Cincinnati...
Bush has been torn between appeasing Congress and rewarding Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu for Japan's newfound flexibility. Just two months ago, U.S. negotiators came out of trade talks in Tokyo angry and frustrated. But seven hours of meetings between Bush and Kaifu last March in California, more talking time than any previous U.S.-Japan summit, were a watershed. Shortly afterward came a flurry of agreements, including a pact on far-reaching structural reforms. Among other changes, Tokyo promised to ease restrictions on opening large department stores and to impose tougher penalties for protectionist bid-rigging schemes...
...clearest instances of this newfound grit are the two most famous speeches. When Lois Smith, giving the finest performance of a great stage career, says as Ma Joad that she knows "the people" will endure, she offers none of the reassuring faith of Jane Darwell in the film. Her words are instead the hollow attempt of a frightened peasant to calm herself and to reassure a son she expects never to see again. When Gary Sinise as Tom Joad tells her that wherever people are organizing for freedom and a better day, he will be there, he does not ooze...
...best part of this newfound, well-earned success is that Hollywood doesn't quite know what to do with Alec Baldwin. He keeps disappearing into his roles, slicking down his hair to come on like a hood or donning glasses for that grad-student look. Mimicry is another form of camouflage, and Baldwin is gifted at it. He can imitate a Woody Allen monologue or a Southern stuntman's patois. While making Red October, Baldwin perfected such a good Sean Connery impression that it ended up in the movie. This is a great on-the- set mood enhancer...
...country thick with informers, where the constant fear of betrayal to | the Securitate had destroyed people's ability to trust one another and work together, the newfound sense of common cause showed itself in other ways. Women rushed out to the army tanks rumbling along Timisoara's streets and passed baskets of bread and pails of tea through the hatches. One recalled another legacy of Ceausescu's -- the beggaring of Rumania -- when she explained, "We have nothing else to give the soldiers except bread...