Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nasty Girl Michael Verhoeven's exuberant, stylish satire, based on recent fact, examines the lingering shadow Nazism casts across Germany and the obsessive determination of one teenager to expose it. As the anti-Nazi girl, Lena Stolze is impish, imperious, utterly adorable...
Bush, unlike Professor Woodrow Wilson or even self-taught Harry Truman, is no historian. But he has never been beyond the shadow of conflict. As a young man, he remembers, he was "a little bit" aware as the Nazi armies overran Europe. "But the whole concept of the real atrocities and the things now that history so vividly records weren't driven home every single day to America," he says. "You've got to remember that in the end of the '30s there was kind of an isolationist fervor in some quarters. People saying, 'Hey, that...
...Oscar- $ nominations time. Any movie about mental disturbance (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rain Man) is likely to touch Academy members, not so much because it treats a serious issue as because it parades the performer's craft. To watch De Niro shrink into the shadow of catatonia is to be made aware of his great gifts of body control, of withdrawing into character, of seeming to be. It's an awesome show that reveals more about De Niro than about the man he is playing. Like the Master Thespian on Saturday Night Live, he might be expected...
Barbara's attempt to keep the spirit of peace and good cheer alive at a time of trouble is part of a long tradition. White House Christmases have often been bittersweet affairs. None was bleaker than the 1963 holiday, observed under the shadow of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Back in 1929, just a few weeks after the stock-market crash, Herbert Hoover's family was having Christmas Eve dinner when fire broke out in the west wing of the White House. As fire trucks clanged, Lou Hoover gathered her grandchildren and read them Christmas stories to calm their fears...
...these women need to be incorporated fully into the curriculum. Black women writers not only have something to offer to other Black people but to everyone. They offer a chance to view history and American society in a new light. To continue to hide their voices in the shadow of "ethnic studies" is a travesty...