Word: shined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cinema verite, the genre Truth or Dare fits into, is supposed to mean movie truth, but it's all about exhibition. The camera doesn't reveal who people are; it shows what they are trying to be. If they are adept at using themselves and others, they will shine. And Madonna -- who has played more roles in a decade of camera courtship than Katharine Hepburn has in 60 years of movie stardom -- radiates luxe, wit and common sense playing a semi-real character based on a fiction named Madonna...
Legal experts who believe the death penalty in the U.S. is applied in an unjust and arbitrary fashion are further alarmed by this latest ruling. "When you cut back on procedural grounds, you're talking about preventing discussion of disputes that may shine a light on various areas of the criminal-justice system that are going awry," says Randall Kennedy, a professor at Harvard Law School. "Who's going to shine a light on the way the system works other than the people enmeshed in it?" Gerald Chaleff, one of Southern California's top criminal-defense attorneys, warns, "You judge...
...ignored," says Phil Shinnick, a school chum and currently a research scientist in Brooklyn. "She was queen of the prom and a street fighter. She had an aura about her. She was physically well endowed and always got the best guy." Her beau in those days was Tom Shine, now a Spokane architect. The romance did not last. "We came from different backgrounds," Shine recalled last week. "I knew she wanted to leave Spokane and do other things...
Unfortunately, this opera is very long. It is very boring. And despite the glimpses of Bernstein's genius which occasionally shine through, this opera hardly merits a Harvard student's Saturday night (in fact, more than half the audience was composed of tuxedo-clad adults...
...shine back in the tarnished industry, the Mexican Chamber of Mines is considering minting 20,000-peso silver coins (worth about $6.75). Another idea is to lower the controlled price for the local handicrafts market. But silversmiths say such an action would have little effect at the retail level, since silver makes up only a small part of their overall costs...