Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shifting, demanding roles, in which Glover would be the only other star. Newton, the Anglo-African actress who illuminated Flirting and Jefferson in Paris, came to the first script reading with an early, teasing hint of her character's mannerisms; her regal beauty explains how Beloved can cast a spell over Sethe and her brood. In the role of Baby Suggs, Beah Richards, who 30 years ago won an Oscar nomination for playing Sidney Poitier's mother in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, serves as both Greek chorus and black preacher; her sermons give the film heft and life...
...Williams' richly detailed portrait, Marshall emerges as a born rebel. He showed early talent as a debater and an advocate--at age six he persuaded his mother to simplify the spelling of his name from Thoroughgood--but even more as a class clown and budding playboy. Indeed, it was not until he arrived at Howard University School of Law in 1930 and fell under the spell of its tough-minded dean, Charles Hamilton Houston, that the contours of Marshall's mission began to form...
...symphony ended, the spell broke and all of the annoying inconveniences brought upon by the confluence of large crowd in the middle of a large city sprung to reality. People grumbled that the location was horrible, the metallic stage looked suddenly gaudy and the exodus of the sweaty masses to the T squeezed the exhilaration of the afternoon into a distant, if pleasant, memory. Yet it was in the midst of this assembly of humanity at its most human that art at its most transcendent was given life. The touching imperfection of the spectacle somehow subsided in the presence...
...September 18 than would have shown up to see Gerhard Schroder, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton together. Why? Because Mandela represents an archetype of one who is committed to truth and who is willing to sacrifice himself for justice, while these "ordinary guys" would be hard-pressed to spell "justice" before taking a poll. The irony of the special convocation two weeks ago is that Mandela seemed like an artifact receiving his honorary degree--a romantic afterthought in an age that has forgotten that men like him exist...
...breakthrough or a breakdown: it's just a healthy helping of well-crafted rock. Ballads like Only Lonely are instantly affable; other numbers, like the jazzy What's Going On Here, have the depth to earn repeated spins in your CD player. Hootie will be around for a spell...