Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like hell to finagle my way into Delta Gamma's weekend rush event, but I get nowhere fast ("If you were a girl," one of the members instructs me, "you could come, but..."). So I settle for a talk with the chapter's Vice-President Social Standards, Rebecca L. Hughes '99, a girl I happened to go to high school with...
When Beijing sought to hunt down the Tiananmen Square protesters, the rush to aid them was one of the international community's, and Hong Kong's, finest hours. Millions of dollars, raised for the protesters before the massacre, were channeled into a rescue effort that the press dubbed Yellowbird and that engineered more than 300 escapes. While well-known figures like Olympic swimmer Yang Yang were whisked away to asylum, less famous fugitives like Zhang were stuck in Hong Kong...
...sent an emissary to scout a back entrance and consider a front-door decoy or diversion for verdict day. As it turned out, when the verdict came down by the early evening of Feb. 4, the Browns found themselves two hours away from Santa Monica--behind the Los Angeles rush-hour gauntlet. By the time they got to the courthouse, a crowd of 2,000 people was gathered outside...
...nowhere to be found on the list, which featured seven nominations apiece for "Fargo" and "Shine" and five each for "Jerry Maguire" and "Secrets & Lies." Best actor nominees included Ralph Fiennes for "The English Patient," Tom Cruise for "Jerry Maguire," Woody Harrelson for "The People vs. Larry Flynt," Geoffrey Rush for "Shine," and Billy Bob Thornton for "Sling Blade." Best actress nominations ventured into slightly different territory with Kristin Scott Thomas for "The English Patient," Brenda Blethyn for "Secrets & Lies," Diane Keaton for "Marvin's Room," Frances McDormand for "Fargo," and Emily Watson for "Breaking the Waves." Other attention-getting...
...personally. But I still enjoy other kinds of movies a great deal. I like movies that are, you know--I like Last Year at Marienbad. It's just that my talent runs in a different direction." As for Star Wars: "If it was just an adrenaline-rush movie, it wouldn't be here 20 years later. There are other things going on that are more complicated and psychologically satisfying. It's like sex and love. Sex is a rush for a short period of time, and then it goes away. If you only have an adrenaline movie, then...