Word: transcending
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...that Kelly, who was born in Pittsburgh, the third of five children, and worked his way up out of the chorus line to Broadway stardom with his tough, taut performance in 1940's Pal Joey, stated his needs and his aspirations. These extended beyond the standard American desire to transcend one's past and transform one's limitations. For he was part of a generation that wanted to reinvent both the stage musical and the movie musical. It saw no reason why song and dance shouldn't reflect the realities of everyday life--and at the same time illuminate...
Phillips describes his book as exploring "the struggle between flesh and spirit and the search for something like lasting joy in the sexual world, both heterosexual and homosexual--my ideas transcend sexual orientation...
Sports are now expected to transcend life. Too often, athletic stars carry their mantles of "invincibility" off the field. The illusion of immortality, the worshipful adulation of thousands, has become deceptively sustaining, a new opiate of the people. This addictive myth of sports immortality lies in its perpetuation of adolescence...
...lawyer backlash may transcend all that. "I am a lifelong Democrat," says Jill Banks-Barad, a Los Angeles consultant, "but I feel myself leaning in favor of the initiatives because litigation has got out of control in this state...
...Camp David Accords in 1979 visibly shocked the Arab peoples who still desperately wanted to believe in Nasserist slogans calling for Pan-Arabian and the destruction of the Jewish state. Admittedly, Sadat's peace initiative had tremendous historical as well as symbolic value, but it was never intended to transcend the realm of symbolism. Sadat was celebrated as a hero in the West but remained largely unpopular at home and was labeled a traitor all over the Arab world. The years of "cold peace" following his death signaled Egypt's reluctance to translate the symbolic peace into "real" peace that...