Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of funny how movies seem to follow such odd trends even though the scheduling usually is coincidental. The Blair Witch Project, Stir of Echoes, Stigmata and The Sixth Sense were all filmed so far apart from each other that there was practically no chance of them ever opening within the same season--let alone the same month. But strangely enough, August was a spookfest every week at the local cineplex. It's ironic, of course, since the true flood of copycat movies will begin in the next six to seven months as Hollywood execs try to capitalize...
...There?s an even more chilling option here ?- that maybe we?ve reached the point, after a year of bullets, at which massacred teens just don?t stir our sympathies any more. Maybe the next killer will have to storm a hospital nursery to get his own theme music on the cable news nets. Sorry, Rod Dreher ?- no matter how the "media elite" may wrinkle its nose at the evangelicals, at the Disney-boycotting gays-are-sinners Baptists, we?re not in the habit of ignoring them. Cassie Bernall, shot in the head in the Columbine library because she copped...
...Colin Powell was the last gasp of the polarized campus, or at least a raucous send-off for the last class that really knew how to stir up controversy, even if they weren't the masters. Al Gore is the dirge for the first class that lacked the rhetorical hare-trigger that made the Harvard campus an interesting, if sometimes tense, place...
...present students could meet. The only news Penninsula makes these days concerns how little news it makes. The old guard--Roger Landry, Sumner Anderson, and company--were walking controversies. The spoke and the campus would go into a frenzy or at least plan an eat-in. Brigette/id Kerrigan could stir up acrimonious polemics about how her name should be spelled and provoke a near-insurrection with the well-timed wave of a flag...
...wants to delay the implementation of the two remaining troop withdrawals for fear of leaving Israeli settlements isolated in Palestinian territory. "Barak would prefer a final status agreement before completing the troop withdrawal, because he believes isolating the settlements gives hard-liners on both sides an incentive to stir up trouble and jeopardize the process," says Beyer. Previous redeployments have prompted Palestinian militants to shoot at settlers and have spurred the settlers to expand their settlements. Barak knows he?ll have to dismantle some of the settlements as part of the final agreement, but believes a piecemeal Israeli withdrawal ahead...