Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...line sometimes starts forming as early as 3 a.m. But these people are not waiting to buy tickets to a rock concert coming to town. They are camped out on Holyoke Street looking for a permanent place to hang their hat-a Harvard-affiliated apartment...
Harvard students do get the convenience of theHolyoke Center display room, where damaged booksare sold for rock-bottom prices...
...links policy with faith is at best a fundamentalist, at worst a zealot. But politicians are well aware of the fact that privately Americans believe in God and have more "faith" than their counterparts throughout most of the West. Such conflict between public and private puts politicians between a rock and a hard place...
When he climbed to the top of the Voltzberg the other day, I, lacking the energy and the equilibrium, did not follow. Instead I sat at the base of the rock and stared into the soft and hazy thicket of the forest. I could not get the panoramic view, but I was able to take in the interior sounds and the overarching silence by which they and I were subsumed. Something momentous was about to happen, or had already happened, 10 million years ago. I could hear the air. Everything became important--the flesh of the leaves, the braided vines...
What doesn't work so well is the storytelling, traditionally a hallmark of Disney-style cartoon craftsmanship. The film lacks creative exuberance, any side pockets of joy. All those evangelists and rabbis who were consulted during the picture's gestation must have weighed like a rock on the filmmakers' impulse to soar. Artistic care gives way to religious caution, and the picture sometimes looks starched, stodgy. Except for the When You Believe anthem, Stephen Schwartz's tunes mostly bring not buoyancy but ballast to the proceedings. While Jeff Goldblum is good as a fretful Aaron, the rest of an exemplary...