Word: presented
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Right now I need to assess the present," he said. "My feeling is that there have been many positives over the past few years--it hasn't been all negatives. It's now my job to figure out what those positives...
...bearings, its hopes for the future and its ideals. An elite group like the Spetsnaz was held together by a belief in the system, as more than half a dozen soldiers interviewed by TIME recall. No longer. "I swore allegiance to Russia," says Alexei. "I don't identify the present regime with Russia." Many feel equally alienated from their corrupt commanders. A conversation with Sergei, a Spetsnaz noncommissioned officer, frequently drifts off into descriptions of how senior officers are stealing the funds for the upkeep of soldiers or even the barracks provided for them. Ivan, a former senior officer...
...around the country. The documentary, a nonideological then-and-now account of American pilots shot down over North Vietnam and held as prisoners of war, got the same tearful, fervent response in other previews in Washington and Los Angeles. Tom Hanks saw an early video copy and agreed to "present" the film, whose message has a spiritual kinship to Saving Private Ryan: a reassertion of the virtues of bravery, fortitude and self-sacrifice...
...narrators. Monster, the latest novel by veteran children's book author Walter Dean Myers, is recounted in the form of a screenplay. Louis Sachar's Holes, last year's Newbery and National Book Award winner about a boy erroneously sent to a juvenile detention center, shuttles between past and present...
What was it that made me start thinking this way? A birthday. Actually, it was a birthday present, or at least it started that way. Since, it has helped shape me. Hard to believe that it's now been 8 years since I asked my parents to buy me a CD player. Five years later, it traveled to college with me, and if I think about it, that little bit of Japanese electronics and plastic probably fundamentally altered who I am and the trajectory upon which I traveled. It might seem odd to make such a claim, but please humor...