Word: stones
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...television, nearly all showed up, sitting at crowded banquet tables in the Beverly Hilton Hotel. And unlike the Oscars and Tonys, the orchestra did not (most of the time) spoil the party by cutting short the acceptance speeches; at the Golden Globes, everybody gets to thank everybody. Sharon Stone, a Best Actress winner for Casino, spent a full three minutes thanking her co-stars, director, several Universal executives, her parents, publicist, hair and makeup people and "the girls at Chaos [her production company]: Paulette, Mindy and Kristen." Backstage with Dick Clark, she had more: "I forgot to mention Nick Pileggi...
...Putting words up on a [screen] is ephemeral, but it's also risky," he says. "We're very frightened today of making statements that will last forever. There's all kinds of risks involved in having something like this as opposed to words cast in stone...
...fell and died. In New York, notwithstanding its recent rosy crime statistics, two men with a 9-mm pistol reportedly relieved Bronx building superintendent Robert DeJesus of his snowblower. But other city dwellers deferred elaborately to one another on narrow-shoveled walks. In Washington, Abby Stone and her two daughters made sandwiches all Monday morning and spent the afternoon delivering food and blankets to the homeless in their emerald-green Jeep Grand Cherokee...
Memorials, as we know, are not merely monuments in stone or in bronze. They have a moral component, they try to communicate truth and the ones that are successful are so because they communicate their truth with clarity. Memorial hall is a brilliant success in this regard. I take nothing from it, but eloquent as it is, it speaks only a partial truth. All of Harvard men did not die for the Union. All of Harvard was not united in a righteous cause. Men then as now were divided by ideals and ideas: united by their experiences of life shared...
...point is that this team has the talent to win the league title. Is that, like allowed?" I said. "I thought it was written in stone that the Crimson would never be successful...