Word: snapshotted
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...What a snapshot of America," said Phan, a first-generation Vietnamese-American. "I believe what Jesse said: in our diversity is strength. It's a tent that holds everybody...
Basically, whatever the ending, this is a film that is difficult to finish properly. We enjoy the snapshot we get of the itinerant young women's lives, precisely because it's so expressive in and of itself. But when Krueger draws out the story, it's everything Johansson and Palladino can do to continue carrying their thorough portrayals without becoming grating. "Manny and Lo" belongs to the ranks of movies that offer more pleasure in the moment's fantasy, in the little package of an idea, than in its fully realized execution...
Such numbers are not just a snapshot of how we live today. To experts who understand the trajectory of childhood development, the statistics predict a grim future for American society. As Douglas Nelson, executive director of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, puts it, "It may well be that the nation cannot survive--as a decent place to live, as a world-class power or even as a democracy--with such high rates of children growing into adulthood unprepared to parent, unprepared to be productively employed and unprepared to share in mainstream aspirations...
...have a snapshot of myself from the spring of ninth grade, posing next to the John Harvard statue with a giant smirk on my face. I wanted it documented on film that Harvard and I were not a good match...
...desegregation generally, the decision's implications could be dire. Says associate director of the naacp Legal Defense Fund Ted Shaw, who argued the Kansas City case before the high court: "If the courts say unitary status means school districts just have to get to the point where a desegregated snapshot can be taken, and then they can go back to the segregating school assignments they had before--if that's all Brown has done, it's been a big charade...