Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...visit to Coca-Cola Olympic City 18 days before the opening ceremonies is any indication, Atlanta is at least ready to embrace the traditional Olympic spirit of commercialism, i.e., go for your gold. For an admission fee ($13 for adults, $8 for children), you can step into the world of corporate sponsorship: meet Olympians in the Reebok Athlete Center, take the kids to Ronald McDonald's SportsPlace, watch a Discovery Channel presentation of A World of Champions. You can refresh yourself with a cooling mist from the bottle caps of the giant Coca-Cola bottles scattered throughout the park--aesthetically...
...addressing his church congregation during the dedication of a sanctuary whose fund-raising committee he had chaired, and as he gazed out at the smiling faces of his friends, he experienced a rush of emotion at the pleasure and pride they all felt at the spirit of sacrifice that produced this noble moment. "Boy, that was a great feeling," he recalls telling his wife Martha later that day. "We gotta think of something else that will bring people together in that kind of joyous celebration...
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a f----ing big television...Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows...Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, f----ed-up brats that you've spawned to replace yourselves...But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin...
...suggests, spirituality manifests itself in some enormously practical ways, such as physical healing. But you make it sound as though Christian Scientists consider spiritual engagement merely a "paramount medical technique." To us, spirituality is the natural outcome of an understanding and loving God, whom we believe to be the Spirit. ENID M. GORMAN New York City...
...combination of all these techniques creates a thrilling ensemble effect all its own that allows one to experience science fiction with a sense of free, Indiana Jones-type adventure spirit. Aliens with bulky heads resembling AWACS spy planes, swooping air battles, visions of destruction on a Biblical scale -- you can see it all here. The movie therefore delivers excitement in the familiar visual vocabulary of past classics, but skillfully updated with a cheerful feel for the epic. Oh, and don't forget such hard-to-beat signature shots as the encroaching shadows and rolling atmospheric disturbances of the spacecraft...