Word: shatter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wounds and illnesses with his touch; his hand starts to glow with a mystical light, and his healings are nothing short of miraculous. His touch cures Edgecomb's urinary tract infection and revives a dead Mr. Jingles, and his power is so strong that light bulbs in his proximity shatter before the sheer concentrated energy. After each healing, the harmful spirits, in the form of a black swarm, are coughed up and released from Coffey's mouth. (Willing suspension of disbelief? Sure, why not.) Convincing his fellow guards of John's powers, Edgecomb arranges to have John secretly brought...
...overly dramatic and sentimental style. It reads "To the memory and legacy of my modern artistic soul mates," then lists twelve artists beginning with John Coltrane and ending with Toni Morrison. West writes in the preface that "This whole [reader]--fraught with tensions and contradictions--reflects my attempt to shatter my own parochial limits and provincial shortcomings...
This was, of course, an illusion, maybe even a dangerous one. It is writer-director Barry Levinson's business in Liberty Heights to shatter that illusion, pick up the shards and rearrange them into a somewhat more realistic, though scarcely revolutionary, pattern. The result is a loose, lively, lovely film that enfolds everything in its embrace from the death of burlesque to the birth of rock 'n' roll, but is mostly concerned with the ways in which Jews, blacks and Wasps, most of them more puzzled than angry, take their first wary, halting steps out of ethnic isolation...
...anywhere else, Jackson's Manichaean analysis crashes in its appraisal of entry barriers in the operating systems market. They are not nearly as high as he believes. Given the lightning speed with which information technology today is generating novelty, recent developments threaten not just to lower purported barriers but shatter them entirely. Java, a universal language being developed by Sun, should drastically decrease dependence on Windows. Internet servers that allow surfers to bypass Windows are also on the rise. As one venture capitalist at Accel Partners puts it, "in the past six months, we have not seen a business plan...
...overlook depression. Social isolation or the death of friends and family can shatter anyone's mental state but is particularly difficult to bear with advancing age. Even patients with clear-cut dementia and depression are less confused when their depression is treated...