Word: ship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tells about her romance with the impoverished passenger Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio). The two run through the events of normal cinematic romance, and Cameron's script presents the lead actors with incredible cliches. Each of the other characters represents a segment of society rather than a person. As the ship breaks apart and its passengers choose between life and death, Titanic achieves an epic grandeur that the film may not deserve. Overall, a pyrrhic victory for Cameron. --Jeremy J. Ross...
Anyone who's ever been on a tour of the campus knows the Widener story. The intrepid, but not-too-bright Harvard grad who went back into the ship as it was sinking to rescue a rare manuscript. But very few ever learn the Straus tragedy. And of those who do, fewer remember this random piece of school trivia. Apparently Mrs. Straus had a spot on one of the life boats, but refused to leave her husband. She stayed and they both drowned together as Titanic sank. In their memory, the Straus' children donated Straus Hall. Proof that while Harvard...
...passenger to stop him from boarding the lifeboats, and ended his life ingraciously with a gun at his head. Which didn't go down too well in Dalbeattie, Scotland, where the real-life officer Murdoch is remembered as a selfless hero who saved lives and went down with his ship...
...critical examination of Sea World. "People are no longer as tolerant of alcohol advertising, which means Anheuser-Busch needs another way to build a positive association with nature, and that's what mega-event animal saving provides." Indeed, last week the crane operator preparing to hoist J.J. to the ship's deck had to pause for workers to affix a SEA WORLD RESCUE banner to the side of the sling...
...almost all nations and barred by the British from finding a home in Palestine, he subtly orchestrated a complex strategy: he inspired tens of thousands of young Jews from Palestine to join the British army in fighting the Nazis, but at the same time authorized an underground agency to ship Jewish refugees into the country. As the British were intercepting, deporting and locking away these survivors of the Nazi inferno in barbed-wired detention camps, world opinion grew more and more sympathetic to the Zionist prescription for the plight of the Jews. This strategy helped bring about the favorable atmosphere...