Word: spirited
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...bold and unabashed intention to honor the different ways in which the disabled move. In fact, the project’s website points out certain different meanings for the word “gimp,” including “a ribbon like, braided fabric… fighting spirit; vigor…[and] to turn, vacillate, tremble ecstatically.” Her motive is not political, but by highlighting the new beauty of disabled body types she transforms her audience’s perception of disabilities entirely. “It started off as just really exploring with different...
...President's Men did in 1976. But perhaps at the least, appreciative audiences will be encouraged to respond to those irritating subscription solicitations before there's nothing left to subscribe to. The Soloist's homage to the fading news business might be maudlin, but in the spirit of the movie's honesty, I confess I'd be about as likely to declare my own mother's funeral too sentimental...
...Close to the Kentucky Club, heavily armed police escort an ambulance ferrying a gang member with bullet wounds to a hospital and sit guard in case his rivals try to come in and finish him off. "You watch what's happening, and you burst into tears," says Vargas. "Your spirit lives in the gutter." Severed heads are often left on roadsides and at police stations; the bodies they were once attached to are sometimes hung from bridges and overpasses. A mass grave holding nine corpses was recently discovered outside the city, and in November students found seven bullet-torn bodies...
...organizers insisted the promotion was a success, and Su herself said, "The crowd loved it, and we really showed some Eleganza spirit." Another participant's attempts to acknowledge the lack of volume from the music were quickly overridden...
...economies - especially Malaysia and Singapore, which rely heavily on trade for economic growth. Fears were also raised in regional capitals that outside powers - whose own trade was being affected in the seizures - would intervene in the strait if the local governments didn't solve the problem themselves. A new spirit of cooperation took hold along the strait. "All of us shared the same goal and objective," says Zahari Jamian, a captain in the Royal Malaysian Navy, "to paint the picture to the world that the strait is not really a war-risk zone...