Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wait a minute," Tiny Kim rasps, looking frantically around the room, "You mean there's no Santa at the top of the corporate hierarchy? No eternal spirit of altruism and self-sacrifice for the benefit of little children everywhere...
...transformative act. In their eyes the Web is more than just a global tapestry of PCs and fiber-optic cable. It is a vast cathedral of the mind, a place where ideas about God and religion can resonate, where faith can be shaped and defined by a collective spirit. Such a faith relies not on great external forces to change the world, but on what ordinary people, working as one, can create on this World Wide Web that binds all of us, Christian and Jew, Muslim and Buddhist, together. Interconnected, we may begin to find God in places we never...
...name for a film, Jerry Maguire is less a title than a label. But in its refusal to pump up the volume, it catches the quietly confident spirit in which this movie has been made. Neither Crowe nor his actors appear to be working hard for hilarity, high romantic tension or a melodramatic denouement. They make no attempt to either glamorize or deglamorize athletes and their hangers-on. There is a recognizable ordinariness about the way these people stumble in and out of trouble, in and out of grace--an ambiguous note, at once tart and sweet, knowing and innocent...
...this plus Martha crafting swizzle sticks out of orange peels--yes, orange peels--not costly antique crystal. Few give credit to the stylemaker for her egalitarianism (in that spirit, one of her guests this year is the thinking man's proletarian, Dennis Franz, who swings by Martha's Connecticut home for a glass of punch). Throughout her holiday special Martha preaches cheap elegance, counseling us to wrap our gifts in inexpensive tulle and tissue paper, showing us how to make tree ornaments out of tin. "I'm trying to get back to handmade stuff," she declares. "Christmas is too rushed...
...annual event. We got stricken by what I call the American Christmas spirit," a Starr employee said...