Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rawat is one of 15 million Indians who stream into movie theaters every day to enter the fantasy world of the Hindi cinema. The fare usually consists of song, dance, tragedy, comedy and love -- all wrapped up in one film -- and for several years a rape scene has been an all but requisite ingredient. The billboards outside movie houses almost always suggest a rape. Last year the posters for the English-language film Crime Time carried the promise SEE FIRST-TIME UNDERWATER RAPES ON INDIAN SCREEN...
What energized that compelling performance was the fact that the performer had something to say. Critics mocked The Speech, that cargo of truisms worn to stream-bed smoothness after decades of delivery, but the solidity, and the consistency, of Reagan's basic message acted as political ballast when many another career capsized...
Since the 1988 closing of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where Martin Luther | King Jr. was assassinated, there have been two constants at the scene: a steady stream of sightseers looking at the unofficial shrine, and the motel's last manager, Jacqueline Smith, who stubbornly refuses to say goodbye to the facility. Night and day, through storm and sunshine, Smith, 39, has camped out in a pup tent in front of the fenced-in property, courteously greeting tourists and adamantly opposing plans to renovate the Lorraine and construct a $9 million Lorraine Civil Rights Museum. She thinks the place should...
...same advice applies to other lands and waters. Backpackers competing for summertime space in the famous shelters along the Appalachian Trail, from Maine to Georgia, must preregister months in advance. And it is the same for Arizona's Aravaipa Canyon, a stream-fed desert site with unique wildlife, where only 50 camping permits are granted daily...
When Bush is still remarkably high in the polls, this demands an explanation. The President's popularity is partly owing to the stream of good news on the economic and international fronts. But since he has barely even tried to put his personal stamp on these happy developments, credit must also go in large part to Bush's personality. He strikes people as a nice guy. Compared with Jimmy Carter (and, goodness knows, Michael Dukakis), he seems loose and human. Compared even with the saintly Ronald Reagan, he seems genuine, off the pedestal, really there. You can take him anywhere...