Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With this tremendous wealth comes a lot of opportunity--and a lot of power. Harvard can attract the best students, from every imaginable background, and admit them without regard to need or circumstance. It can entice the most promising and accomplished faculty with impressive salaries and a host of other benefits. It can maintain the nation's finest library system and still afford to keep its laboratories, dormitories, classrooms, and athletic and dining facilities in top condition. Taken together, these privileges--and make no mistake, they are privileges--allow Harvard to wield tremendous power...
...host thousands of alumni in Cambridge for a series of committee meetings, faculty lectures, and fancy dinners to celebrate the very best in their alma mater--especially the $2.325 billion raised in the recent Capital Campaign. But even as this weekend's events symbolize Harvard's enormous wealth and power, a more disturbing relationship between wealth and poverty lurks beneath this seemingly pristine landscape of alumni satisfaction...
...because she was so amazed at the audition). In a characteristic move of flygirl solidarity, the dancers all agree that they are each the others' greatest inspirations. The flygirls may not be Spice Girls, but the women who play them sure seem to echo the five pop tarts' girl power sentiments...
...Bringing Out the Dead owes a lot to New York City, its silent costar, but there's another central contender as well--the hospital dubbed Our Lady of Misery. There's a column of bullying power in the black police officer who, like Saint Peter, mans the entrance to the clinic, deciding who is admitted and who is not. But through the steely gates is not paradise, for this overcrowded, understaffed clinic has patients writhing and screaming within every cinematic inch. In this fluorescent-lighted madhouse, the sterile, linoleum-- tiled hospital reflects the emotional tone of the nurses and doctors...
...Sure the religious themes of loss and redemption may not be original, but Scorsese's creation bleeds Frank Pierce and the nighttime world of New York City with all its grotesque beauty and pain. This film needs no savior, but it still owes a lot of its moving power to its star, Nicolas Cage, who finally takes a break' from all of Joel Bruckheimer's testosterone flicks and returns to an actor's movie, one that can showcase his intensity and expressive range. Cage has found the perfect vehicle to display his talent as another less glorious, but equally moving...