Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...something like the sound of wind being removed from sails--when he first beheld Sense and Sensibility? Pollack is its executive producer, without whose enthusiasm, it is said, the movie might never have been made. He is one of the few contemporary American directors blessed with a genuinely romantic spirit (Out of Africa) and no small gift for comedy (Tootsie). He is also, by quirk of fate, Lee's chief competitor in the romantic-comedy market niche this season, as the producer-director of Sabrina...
Onstage, under David Warren's direction, Laura Linney takes the Hepburn part of Linda Seton, of the megamoneyed Fifth Avenue Setons. Linda is a would-be free spirit who falls for her straitlaced sister's fiance, a poor-born but quick-climbing lawyer. Though Linney has brightness and passion, Hepburn's telltale intonations--everything from her offhand pluckiness to her tremulous indignation--keep surfacing. As the fiance, Tony Goldwyn has better luck sliding out from under Grant's broad-shouldered shadow, although he escapes partly through lack of intensity; he doesn't fully engage us in his struggle between...
...Beacon," may have expressed isolationist views, but many of the early patriots were vigorous internationalists. Benjamin Franklin said, "Our cause is the cause of all mankind." Thomas Paine, the fervently religious man who gave us the name United States of America, said, "My country is the world." Today that spirit is not just noble; it is imperative. CHARLES F. DAMBACH, Chairman Coalition for American Leadership Abroad Washington...
Imperfect, the debate over the balanced budget serves as one of the great tests of America's national spirit. In the past we have always passed these tests. When Great Britain sought to impose taxation without representation on the 13 colonies thousands of men came forward to help carve out a new nation committed to freedom and democracy...
...When Kurt came back after Thanksgiving with the tree, everyone got excited," says Sharon A. Lee '99. "No one cared that it was a Christmas thing. It is really the holiday spirit that counts," she says...