Word: transcender
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...Democratic Leadership Council is, famously, a centrist organization but, infamously, not a very moderate one. Al From created it in 1985 to transcend the smug, knee-jerk rigidity that overwhelmed the Dems after Vietnam. From was convinced that a new political deal was possible, that liberal ends could be achieved through conservative means. Fiscal responsibility (and free trade) could produce economic growth. Tough-minded welfare reform could reduce poverty. A dose of entrepreneurship would improve American education, health care and environmental protection. The DLC gleefully assaulted the reactionary left-the trade unions and bureaucrats who had a stake...
...your Olympics. If you're a Western European, the Games is a track-and-field championship, while for American TV viewers it's a reason to go all gooey-eyed over winsome teenage gymnasts, and for Turks it's a celebration of weight lifting. True, a few stars transcend their sports and a regional base. Babe Ruth, Pelé and Michael Jordan did so, and today I'd put David Beckham, Lance Armstrong and Tiger Woods in the same category-but very few others manage that trick...
...Satan adaptation, Crazy as Hell, featuring Eriq LaSalle and Michael Beach. Mr. Leven has moved from success to success as a veteran in the industry, his psychological insight lending a depth to his characterizations even as his talent manages to ground otherwise insubstantial films and allow them to transcend their genre limitations...
...endorsed Bush. But a radical move to the middle, a campaign that looks and sounds different from the usual partisan claptrap--one that features more ideas like Kerry's proposed reduction in the corporate tax in return for corporate-loophole closing--may be John Kerry's only chance to transcend the swamp gas that is threatening to engulf this long, long political year...
...with a fair degree of success in Remember the Titans and The Rookie, Disney moves down its list to hockey, in particular the U.S. Olympic hockey team’s triumphant victory over the world champion Soviet team in the 1980 Games. But Miracle makes a valiant attempt to transcend the trappings of its saccharine genre, and largely succeeds with the prescient casting of Kurt Russell as team coach Herb Brooks. Russell, whose dusty film resume has been given a sudden shock, walks, talks and grunts the part of the bull-headed Brooks with confidence; if the film had been...