Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this period McCartney started Promise Keepers. In the spring of 1990 he and his friend Dave Wardell, an official of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, were preparing to travel from Boulder to Pueblo when McCartney was struck by a vision of stadiums filled with men willing to become deeply committed Christians. "He jumped in the car and said, 'Let's pray,'" says Wardell. "We prayed for three and a half hours. This guy is strong. He's stronger than bear's breath...
Stone declined to comment on the relationship between personal vision and Tom Cruise's blowing up yachts with fountain pens...
Preceding Stone's talk-ponderously titled "The Role of Personal Vision in Film"-was a sycophantic introduction by Jim Bernier, chief film critic of the Boston Herald. After happily noting Stone's staggering 37 Academy Award nominations, Bernier somewhat reluctantly mentioned Stone's next big project: Mission Impossible...
When Stone finally got around to discussing the role of personal vision in film, he shuffled through a few more cliches before revealing his ultimate desire: an intensely personal film with the director as subject, a la Fellini's film-on-film...
Like an old-fashioned barn raising, it took the skills and hard work of hundreds of people to turn this vision into reality. Four different nursing schools pooled their resources to make classes available to students all over Kansas via compressed video, a medium that digitizes both visual images and sound, then "compresses" the information for transmission over high-speed telephone lines to specially configured television sets. But if any two people can be said to represent the heart and soul of the program, they are Helen Conners, 54, and Gemma Doll...