Word: silver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Another silver lining: record companies don't necessarily have to pay out the vast sums that get bandied about in the press. Jackson's megadeal might, like her stage show, be partly smoke and mirrors. Record contracts, like movie deals, are often larded with clauses and subclauses that make interpreting the value of a deal a brain-wilting affair, as mystifying as the recent reports that Forrest Gump hasn't turned a profit. "When you read the fine print, you find lots of changes," says record-industry attorney Don Engel. "Some of these contracts are 80 to 100 pages. There...
...novel's central thesis--that movie theaters have become modern America's houses of worship--is never really demonstrated in action. Except for Essie's adventures in Hollywood, the lives and deaths of the various Wilmots transpire at a far remove from silver screens. And for all its author's labors toward unity, In the Beauty of the Lilies remains an assemblage of separate and unequally inspired fragments...
Elsewhere, she deftly depicts the ways in which women can create glamorously detailed personas for one another based on passing observations of dress or manner. In Sacred Heart, the finest story in the collection, a girl named Sarah grows fascinated by a mysterious new classmate, Amanda. "She wore silver bracelets embedded with chunks of turquoise," notes Sarah, "and she would cross her legs and stare into space in a way that suggested she lived a dark and troubled life." Amanda eventually loses her mystique, of course, but through her the heroine fashions a singular identity...
...concerned with whether there was an Abraham, a Noah, a 40-year trek in the wilderness or an invasion of Palestine. The stories were created to convey the theological truth that God empowers, guides and saves. Faith is the key. (THE REV.) ROBERT B. GUSTAVSON First Presbyterian Church Silver City, New Mexico...
...Then the electrical and communications systems failed. As a pair of helicopters combed the region, Fossett changed course and headed for the Canadian Coast rather than risk landing in the frigid Bay of Fundy. Searchers soon discovered equipment the pilot had jettisoned to stay aloft, then spotted the bedraggled silver balloon skin near woods 65 miles north of the Maine border. An exhausted Fossett emerged from his all-weather capsule with few words: "I'm rather disappointed and embarrassed that I didn't do better on this...