Word: secret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flew to Milan, met with his team of sleuths and mapped out a bold maneuver. And then on Saturday, April 10, in a wrenching scene on a Lucerne street, the girls were plucked like flowers from their mother's side. Their secret lives ended as abruptly as they had begun--whisked away by car as their mother screamed for them...
...game and use our prosperity to help the 1 in 5 children growing up poor. "This economy's so good we have no more excuses," he says. "These are the issues I'm fighting for. I don't have Air Force Two out there; I don't have the Secret Service. But I do have those of you who came out to Dunkin' Donuts on a Sunday morning to see me. Some of you might have known me when I was in short pants"--his years as a basketball star--"but I'm in a different place...
...Blade Runner. The new sidekick, a computer-birthed frog boy named Jar Jar Binks, is a vexing, endearing mix of Kipling's Gunga Din and Tolkien's Gollum, and speaks in a pidgin English ("Yousa Jedi not all yousa cracked up to be!") that will be every kid's secret language this summer. Even on paper, the film's set pieces--a 10-min. Podrace and the climactic battle between the ragged forces of good and the minions of the dark side--have power and razzmatazz...
McCallum thinks he knows the secret. "The story is meaningful," he says, "simply because there's an age of longing that people go through. That's what the story is about--longing, yearning. We ask ourselves, 'What's next? Can I be the person I want to be?' For some, the dream comes true. For some, it doesn't. We look at the story of Anakin Skywalker, and it makes us wonder. Is that just a cast of the die? Is it our character? Is it luck...
Publications range from liberal (Perspective) to conservative (the Salient) and useful (the Let's Go travel guide series) to pointless (the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...