Word: quest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spoke about how so many lawyers today get trapped in the cycle of huge firms and large retainers, watching their careers slip by in a quest for monetary reward...
...quest for Broadway respect, Saturday Night Fever has done almost everything wrong. It's a big, splashy musical trying to replicate a hit movie, a pretty crass way to make a buck. Its director, Arlene Phillips, is better known for staging extravaganzas in Las Vegas. The show is loud and pushy and panders to the crowd shamelessly. Worse, it overcame critical hoots to become a smash in London, a feat it now has the audacity to think it can repeat in New York City...
...pursuing an anti-homophobic politics, I find the quest for homosexuality's origins completely uninteresting. If queerness is biological, homophobes will abort proto-gay fetuses or correct "gay genes" and enlarged hypothalami; if it's constructed, they'll send their proto-gay children to therapy...
With a shared championship, Leverett triple and international experience, Ruggiero and Botterill will be a devastating duo in Harvard's quest for another ECAC title...
Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth), hero of David Lynch's The Straight Story, brings out the best in people--by talking or listening to them or just by the example of his tortoise-like quest. He is driving his John Deere lawnmower 350 miles to see his estranged brother. Alvin turns out to be your basic Lynch hero: a Kyle Maclachlan type, as average as apple pie, who follows his obsessions to heaven or hell. The supporting cast is normal too--and thus vastly weird, because Lynch presents them, as he did the sickos of Blue Velvet, without comment or condescension...