Word: thepoint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think probably I would have been on thelenient side," Wood says. "I was conscious of thepoint that the perspective of the students was notbeing adequately presented at the national level...
...vicious misogynist; he is cast asanti-Semitic; he is pronounced guilty of writingAfrican-American and native African characters outof his works and of racism when he does includethem. And even when Hemingway is not offendinganybody, he has been labeled infantile. Writerslike Tobias Wolff mark their adulthood at thepoint when they cease to be entranced byHemingway's bravado; and perhaps many--like PeterMathiessen, who smugly pronounced the author a"brave coward"--take a certain joy in Hemingway'ssuicide, which proves once and for all that theman was really a posturer, masking fear withmachismo...
...Their fourth goal came on a shot from thepoint," Springer said. "There was a crowd in frontand I didn't see it. I was not in the rightposition...
Again, the Wildcats struck first with atwo-on-one breakaway. Junior forward SamanthaHolmes cleanly rejected a Crimson shot from thepoint and took off down the ice with only oneHarvard defender helping Springer. After drawingSpringer to her left, Holmes flipped the disc toclassmate Melissa McKenzie, who sent the puck intothe net with 7:39 left in the contest...
...point where hebelieves the messages in songs need not beconveyed through music. And so the intermixing ofother forms of media--since the late '70s,Springsteen says, his inspiration has come notfrom music but from "films, novels andbook"--necessary in the absence of compellingmusic, a cross-polination which often reaches thepoint of extreme pretentiousness or even ofridiculousness: The Ghost of Tom Joad is analbum with source credits that include scholarshipon migrant workers, Steinbeck's Grapes ofWrath and John Ford's Grapes movie.Springsteen has arrived at some type of mediaalchemy, his songs associated with movies--all ofhis recent hits, "Philadelphia," "Dead ManWalking...