Word: reclaimation
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With Botterill’s graduation, Corriero itched for an opportunity to reclaim her role as an offensive focal point. Knowing she’d be looked to immediately for production, Corriero spent her summer as a rising junior simply preparing, reclaiming the attacker’s mentality she had shifted away from the year before while holding fast to her mature defensive game. Unlike freshman year, there would be no surprise, no period of coming to grips with her own talent...
Harvard would reclaim them 700 meters in, as always. Just as predictably, the Crimson would be ahead by a full length 400 meters later, and possess an open-water lead not long thereafter...
...election year, many don’t see a “message” in the rhetoric of the Left’s titular leader, the presumptive Democratic nominee, John Kerry. Perhaps that message would be clearer if it were framed in a vocabulary that seeks to reclaim the meanings of words that have been poisoned by years of insincerity and extremism. Establishing a new vocabulary is not the point; we need to take the old vocabulary and make it make sense again. Here are a few suggested entries for a recovered dictionary...
...smile, ?The Jury is DELIGHTED to award....? Yuya Yagira, the 14-year-old star of Hirokazu Kore-eda?s poignant Japanese drama ?Nobody Knows,? won the Best Actor prize. Best Actress went to Hong Kong?s Maggie Cheung for her role as a drug addict fighting to reclaim her young son in ?Clean,? a Franco-Canadian drama - and a rather laggard, predictable one - directed by Cheung?s ex-husband Olivier Assayas. Ironically, Cheung won over Zhang Ziyi, the star of ?2046.? Cheung had shot some scenes for that film, but was not evident in the print shown at Cannes. Success...
...rose revolution." Last November, crowds of determined but peaceful demonstrators, protesting against poverty and corruption, convinced Shevardnadze that he had lost control of Georgia, and the former Soviet Foreign Minister stepped down to allow Saakashvili to take over without violence. Saakashvili, 36, a U.S.-trained lawyer, vowed to reclaim all of the fractured country's provinces and spread democracy over a unified Georgia. Since then, relations between Tbilisi and Batumi have been tense. Ajaria has been running its own affairs since the Soviet era, but Abashidze refused to recognize Saakashvili's authority or relinquish his control of the region...