Word: upliftment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: A creaky plot, predictable characters, recycled pop tunes, instant uplift, no style -- how can it miss...
Although we are not responsible for the subordinate position we occupy in this society, most Blacks are willing to solve their own problems. However, we cannot uplift ourselves when we are constantly affected by outside influences that effectively maintain the status quo, including the infusion of drugs and guns, severely underfunded and inferior schools, police brutality and general disrespect...
...focus is the uplift of the Black community," Minor says. "You're singled out to uplift the community from which you came...
...answer is almost certainly no. This is not, putting it mildly, a subject of wide or particularly pressing current interest. Barton Fink's capacity for spiritual uplift is nil, and though the plight of the eponymous scrivener is often bleakly funny, we are not talking Hot Shots! here. In fact, with its long passages in which, literally, we are invited to watch nothing more stirring than paper peeling off the walls (or not moving through Barton's typewriter), the movie may challenge the faith of even the most loyal Coenheads...
Ball park. Just the words jog the memory and uplift the spirit in a way that is antithetical to seemingly analogous terms like stadium, coliseum and that ghastly civic-booster construction "sports complex." The key word is park, because nothing better conveys a small child's glee at the first glimpse of the field on an outing to the ball park. The three survivors of baseball's glory days -- Fenway in Boston, Wrigley in Chicago and Detroit's Tiger Stadium -- are islands of green in a densely urban setting. Lawrence Lucchino, president of the Baltimore Orioles, explains his team...