Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it's a good thing for the University to recognize the right of any group that wishes to speak," Lin said. "However, I think that the message that AALARM seeks to disseminate...is one that is very harmful to the general spirit of the Harvard community in that there is a message of intolerance and hate...
...system of combining] reduces the problem of formals being on the same weekend. We've been working on creating quad spirit. It's been a great idea," Chiu said...
...plays Williams' longtime lover in The Birdcage, the Mike Nichols-directed remake of La Cage aux Folles. "I know there were times when Robin probably wanted to be outrageous," says Lane, no stranger to flamboyance. "But there was instant chemistry. I think he felt like I was a kindred spirit." Lane's reaction to being offered the career-making role was aptly Williamsian. When Nichols told him he wanted to talk about a movie, Lane said, "Forrest Gump? I loved it! Not liked--LOVED!!" Nichols gave him the part the next morning...
...ROTHSTEIN (ROBERT DE NIRO) favors sports jackets in blinding solids--sometimes in the primary hues, sometimes in less-than-subtle pastels. These he color-coordinates with silky haberdashery and alligator loafers dyed to match. But underneath his sight-gag plumage lives a gray, watchful, calculating spirit. He's a professional gambler, always looking for an edge. Or, once the Mob makes him manager of a Las Vegas casino in the 1970s, the preternaturally alert defender of its edge over the assembled suckers...
...realized that the indomitable strength of the race lies in their collective pain. But what I saw on the news later subverts human decency and truth. It is a travesty that the credit due Farrakhan for delivering these black men to the steps of the Capitol in peace, in spirit, in love was rhetorically taxed by the media and politicians. White America should be so lucky as to have a leader who could bring a million of its men together to atone for their transgressions. ROBERT CORSINI Los Angeles