Word: rootedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yankees seems the least revivable of musicals, inextricably rooted in a bygone era when the Washington Senators played baseball and the New York Yankees reigned supreme. Its household references are just as dated: wives no longer suffer quite so silently while husbands sit in easy chairs drinking beer and watching...
A trend has emerged in the way this crime is being construed by the print media. Ames is being painted as the post-ideological spy. No one has spoken of Ames' predilections for a Communist regime, or even of a pathological desire to sell out his own country as such...
Welcome to the real world and thanks god that it's changing! What You calls "bias" and condemns as something which can and should be rooted out, I call "perspective," something which is an unavoidable by-product of human beings writing about human situations.
We're already watching the movie. Unlike most dramas that can only recreate the crime, the attack in question -- and most subsequent plot points -- are already on film. The videocam verite of the clubbing provides the same gritty realism that the Zapruder footage brought to Oliver Stone's JFK. The...
The Harvard Foundation's decision to invite Martin Yan to speak had nothing to do with role models. Yan's attraction is rooted in his reputation as an entertainer who can teach the fine art of cooking and make his audience laugh at the same time. Forcing him to become...