Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...busy holiday-travel season at hand, stressed-out travelers with less room to stretch are increasingly directing their anger at flight crews, punching an attendant, head butting a co-pilot or trying to break into the cockpit. "Passenger interference is the most pervasive security problem facing airlines," Captain Stephen Luckey of the Air Line Pilots Association testified before Congress. Though still relatively small, the number of incidents is estimated to have at least doubled in recent years. Nearly a thousand episodes took place within U.S. jurisdiction last year...
...answer--put forth most eloquently by Stephen Carter of Yale Law School--is to emphasize that the Constitution does not proscribe the influence of religious thought on politics. Carter's point is in some ways compelling. If I am a religious person, and my religiosity helps define who I am, then there should be no reason for me to deny or underplay that part of my character simply to serve in government. If I were to do that, indeed, my constituents would not be electing the real...
...pockets of joy. All those evangelists and rabbis who were consulted during the picture's gestation must have weighed like a rock on the filmmakers' impulse to soar. Artistic care gives way to religious caution, and the picture sometimes looks starched, stodgy. Except for the When You Believe anthem, Stephen Schwartz's tunes mostly bring not buoyancy but ballast to the proceedings. While Jeff Goldblum is good as a fretful Aaron, the rest of an exemplary vocal cast (Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Patrick Stewart) can't add much shading or power. Steve Martin is here for muted comic relief...
...leads among the Venetians, New England Conservatory first-year Stephen Beaudoin fares well as the cheerily optimistic and slightly dopey gondolier Marco, his fairly hearty (but once again too quiet) singing matched with an eye for physical comedy. Krishnan Unnikrishnan '02 is equally endearing and doltish as Giuseppe, fellow gondolier and possible heir-to-the-throne. Unnikrishnan hams it up remarkably well with lots of giggly smirks and "Aw, shucks" glances, but at times this silliness comes out as slightly effeminate camp--manly gondolieri do not typically bat their eyelashes when they're being serenaded by a lovely contadine...
...chronological approach...is always in some sense secretly thematic, since one cannot possibly read everything," says Levin Professor of Literature Stephen J. Greenblatt, who is teaching English 124c: "Shakespearean Conjuring," this semester...