Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grew up in Marblehead, Mass., the alleged birthplace of the U.S. Navy and the home of the "Spirit of '76," the famous painting epitomizing the pluck and tenacity of the soldiers of the Revolutionary War. Marblehead is a small, historic town marked by sites at which both Lafeyette and Washington slept...
...this loaded material. Matarazzo's performance is seamless, and it seems inconceivable that she could be anything other than the squinting, mouthbreathing girl she portrays. Her dead-pan performance means that her Dawn is tough, not easily crushed by the blows she keeps facing. The resiliency of the developing spirit is thus a tacit message of the film. Bredan Sexton Jr brings out the tender helplessness of a character that could otherwise seem downright evil, while not overplaying the "sensitive" card. Both these young actors deserve praise for the delicate, sophisticated balance and naturalism they bring to their roles, especially...
...city's practical response to such social divisions has always been to put its faith in economics: Be good for business, the so-called Atlanta Spirit reminds its citizens, and business will be good for you. Even the oddly defensive tag Atlanta gives itself--"The City Too Busy to Hate"--rearticulates the hope that busy-ness can paper over resentments. And, to a remarkable extent, the city has made good on its promise: Atlanta is famously the center of the Cable News Network, Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola; and for four straight years in the '90s, "Hotlanta...
...ideology," Republicans pounced. Clearly, Clinton, too, thought that his liberalism was a handicap and hence he tried to change the outcome by changing his approach. He talked about the breakdown of family and urged people to begin by changing "from inside out," changes that reach "the values, the spirit, the soul." In reality, however, Mr. Clinton was a charter New Democrat and has governed as one since the opening bell. His administration moved to the right on nearly every core economic issue since taking power. Think of it as "putting corporations first." He has preferred the financial markets over working...
...found is common to Moses and Muhammad, to Buddha and Jesus. It is known to every mystic tradition. In mine, it is the Tetragrammaton, the Name so holy that those who know it dare not say it. It is what the Cabala calls Ayin, Nothingness, No-Thingness. It is Spirit, Being...