Word: tonis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...becomes a major summer hit. Billed as a riveting film about ghosts, The Sixth Sense is really an examination of what we the living need in our lives. It begins by focusing on a trio of outcasts in this world: Bruce Willis as a psychologist estranged from his wife, Toni Collette as a lonely single mom and Haley Joel Osment as her socially awkward son. But before long the film makes isolation a theme capable of transcending worlds. The ghosts in writer/director M. Night Shyamalan's world don't want to hurt the living. They just want to talk...
When asked about his most passionate issue, Bill Bradley will likely answer "race." He's known to quote Toni Morrison and to tell of the day he saw Congress debate the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He says that he'll always ask his political appointees to pay close attention to diversity. He strongly embraces affirmative action...
Though this year's list was not as controversial, Hess said that the focus on classics makes it unique. "It's an interesting list because it could have been written 15 years ago, with the exception of Toni Morrison, who is the one modern day writer...
...Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Where the Side-walk Ends by Shel Silverstein, Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, Beloved by Toni Morrison and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand rounded out the list...
...bucking the time-honored tradition of running to the right in the primaries and lurching back to the center in the general election. Her calculation involves some new math, based on the belief that her survival depends on drawing into the primaries some moderates and independents and women like Toni Pappas, who jumped from her seat and cheered, "You go, girl!" and "It's time for a skirt!" "For most women, guns are so irrational," says a Dole adviser. "What she did was just perfect for who we're trying to target...