Word: unquietly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expert computer animation by Dennis Muren and his fellow effects wizards at ILM, Casper is cute and pudgy -- a Pillsbury ghost boy. Yet he is also a dead child speaking from an unquiet grave. Poaching on her father's turf, Kat serves as Casper's therapist and helps him remember his life and early death. "What's it like to die?" Kat asks eagerly, and Casper replies, "Like being born-only backwards." Before long, Kat is forced to decide who lives and who dies-her father or her new best friend...
...Concertino, written for the cellist and completed by him after Prokofiev's death in 1953. But the glory of the recording is a magisterial reading of Elgar's Cello Concerto; Rostropovich's probing musical mind goes to the heart of this sorrowful masterpiece and brings balm to its unquiet soul...
Thus, while I certainly approve of his argument so far as it goes, I cannot help wishing that Gomes might have made some public statement of his devotion to these other habits as well, since such a proclamation might have done much to ease many an unquiet conscience...
...kill 100,000 people and to feel no pain at having done so may be dangerous to those who did the killing. It hints at an impaired humanity, a defect like a gate through which other deaths may enter, deaths no one had counted on. The unquiet dead have many ways of haunting -- particularly in the Middle East, which has been accumulating the grievances of the dead for thousands of years...
People tend to run back at this time of year. If war and recession come banging on the door, as they are doing now, the spirit feels unquiet, dislodged. The news carries with it threats of eviction and violence...