Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America, writes of the exact instinct which stirs our love of instant explanation. Americans, he wrote, have "an unrestrained passion for generalizations," which is rooted in our democratic instincts. Believing that all humans are fundamentally alike, the democrat has "an ardent and often blind passion of the human spirit to discover common rules for everything" and seeks "to explain a group of facts by one sole cause...
...eggs," she wrote. "I have loved fire drills and Tai Chi on the lawn with Mr. Kritzer's philosophy class. I have loved you and our moments of folly together...We're all looking for passion, for something, anything, in our lives." And she wondered how to capture the spirit, "the humanity and integrity that walk the halls of our very own Columbine...
Dylan Klebold was said to be the weaker spirit of the two: quiet, reserved, looking for a leader, which he found in Eric Harris when the Harrises moved to Littleton from Plattsburgh, N.Y. Klebold's father Thomas is a former geophysicist who launched a mortgage-management business from his home. His mother Susan worked with blind and disabled kids at the local community college. They lived in a modern wood-and-glass home tucked under a stunning outcropping of red rocks in an area called Deer Creek Canyon. On the day before the shooting, neighbors of the Harrises saw Klebold...
...gray, uncharacteristically chilly day in Los Angeles, David Lynch is perched on a director's chair at the majestic wrought-iron gates to Paramount Pictures, dragging on an American Spirit cigarette and smiling at the video monitor. Lynch is shooting a scene for Mulholland Drive, his new 1-hr. series expected to premiere this fall on ABC. The show follows two women--one an innocent, the other a vixen with a shady past--whose lives intersect in contemporary Hollywood. As the cameras roll, a Yellow taxi drives up, depositing an ethereal-looking blond at the gate. She pauses breathlessly, then...
...Orioles have also sought to asphyxiate the spirit of the game by preventing fans from chanting. The team has announced that "strict guide-lines for fan conduct will be enforced, and fans may be asked to leave, even for chanting, if it disturbs other fans." No "hey, batter, batter"? No chants of "U.S.A., U.S.A.?" What's an international baseball game without a little jingoism? (One wonders whether chants impugning the virtue of the umpire's female relatives--in a completely apolitical manner, of course--would fall under the guideline...