Word: redeemed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every cloud has a silver lining and the wrestlers were quickly able to redeem themselves. The very next day they returned to form with dominating efforts over Columbia, 25-13, and Umass-Lowell...
Headlines that once read "Celtic Pride" now read "Celtics Continue Slide" or the more tragic, "Celtic Dies." But not even dark humor can redeem Boston's embarrassing season. This is no film noir. It's a horror show...
Hussain performed poorly the first two days, initially claiming the Dunce title, but managed to redeem himself by the end of the week...
There are pain and honor in this performance, and they constantly rise up to redeem a film that is less probing, less thoughtful than its director's claims and aspirations for it. The problems with Michael Collins begin with its conventional three-act movie structure--ABC, QED. This is fine for fiction, but history, as everyone who has lived some of it knows, works more waywardly and coincidentally than that. Especially when it's in the throes of revolution...
Turow obviously cares about Sonny and Seth and the lost possibilities they might somehow redeem, so much so that he cannot give his main characters the ironic distance their actions seem to require. This triumph of the heart over the head is a weakness concealing a strength. For The Laws of Our Fathers gathers considerable emotional power toward the end. The funeral of Seth's father, a Holocaust survivor and once the bane of his rebellious son's existence, calls together a number of the novel's main characters plus a cross-section of Kindle County, old and young, black...