Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first choice to accomplish the family's ascent to real power was his eldest, Joe Jr. When Jack Kennedy made the papers for his exploits as skipper of PT-109, the father sent the press clippings to Joe Jr., then a 29-year-old naval air lieutenant, to provoke him into getting started on his own heroic legend. It worked all too well. In the summer of 1944, Joe Jr. volunteered to fly a plane loaded with explosives into a Nazi missile site. The plan was for him to bail out before the plane struck its target. Instead...
...John. He was not a figure of power like his father, somebody to be hated because of his political persuasion. Nor did he have that reckless streak in him that Bobby had, which compelled the uncle to fly through hailstorms for political appointments or dive into dangerous seas to get ashore faster. He was John-John, a normal kid turned young man turned adult who was sensible and kind and concerned, but burdened with the great Kennedy legend and the world with its nose pressed against his windows...
Schaller said Medical School officials still have "not a clue" as to what caused the initial outage, but technicians were able to get the normal power system back online by creating a temporary circuit that bypassed the short circuit...
...often in bad light or with bad sound, through jerky, rushed shots. There's no score and no opening credits. On the one hand, this makes it plausible that the movie is no illusion. It seems to be a student documentary made on the cheap that fully demonstrates the power of the storied Blair Witch. But because the movie never tries to create the illusion that we're seeing unfiltered reality, we know that we're sitting in a theatre, watching something. That bit of detachment keeps us aware that what we see is not real, even though it claims...
...performances even while improvising much of the dialogue. Heather (Heather Donahue) plays the director and narrator of the documentary. Her drive keeps the project going, but her badgering of jockish cameraman Mike (Michael Williams) and easy-going soundman Josh (Joshua Leonard) causes tension. As things go awry, however, the power structure breaks down. Their relationships become more subtle and volatile as their fear wears on them and paranoia looms. They are each sympathetic, in their own ways, and our caring about them makes their plight all the more gripping...