Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense of spiritual meaning." He also realized that such revivals are fraught with danger: "If the Germans are ready today to shed their blood for Hitler, you must understand that it is useless to blame Hitler. It is because Hitler gives the Germans something to be enthusiastic about." His vision of humanity revivified by passion and purpose was clouded by his view of history: "When the Spirit is aroused -- each time it is aroused -- it sheds blood...
...drought last summer, much of the population remains undernourished. In the parched northern provinces of Eritrea and Tigre, a simmering civil war is making already harsh conditions even worse. The government's conflict with rebels in those regions has driven out relief workers and blocked food shipments. World Vision, a California-based agency, was feeding 370,000 people in Tigre province last May when threats of violence forced the organization's workers to flee...
...suggest that all women are fools and all men knaves. In fact, it says that nothing is sadder than enduring the death of romance, and nothing more wryly poignant than looking at it from the outside. In Heartburn (as in Kramer vs. Kramer), the "outside" is the tunnel-vision point of view of the offended party. The viewer, who is vouchsafed all Rachel's perceptions and prejudices, is never told Mark's reasons for seeking solace in the bed of a society hostess while his wife is seven months pregnant. But nobody said life or art had to be fair...
...Democratic primary in Georgia's Fifth Congressional District means little. Its significance far transcends such things. It is about friendships and loyalties, history and change. It is about the ambitions of two men with very different backgrounds and styles who had -- and still have -- an important vision in common. It is about the coming of age of a movement, one that Bond and Lewis helped found 25 years ago, which sought for blacks the right to participate fully in the political process...
...this was beginning to take promising shape on paper in late 1983. But paper is not celluloid. And Cameron and Hurd needed a track record to support their developing vision. Luckily, it came in a rush. First, casting and finance finally came together for The Terminator script, which he directed and she produced. (It was during postproduction that their professional relationship turned into a romance that led to marriage ten months later.) In the meantime, he finished the script on which Sylvester Stallone did his usual devastating rewrite -- and turned into Rambo. The Terminator was a low-budget ($6.5 million...