Word: voided
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...laugh got me through," and she does so far more often in private conversations than her dignified and rather somber public image would suggest. She jokes about her childhood in Lorain, Ohio. "I was the one with the anonymous birth order. There was my older sister, firstborn; me, void; my younger brother, first son; and another son, the family baby. Feeling left out, and trying to attract attention, I became the noisiest of them...
Aaron's gift to his community these past three years isn't just generous; it fills a void. The school district employs only three full-time network specialists to address the needs of 30 schools. While two of the specialists are also responsible for teaching district employees how to use computers, they rarely visit schools...
Danny Glover, Virginia Madsen and Mickey Rourke are solid in their supporting roles. Matt Damon, however, isn't given much of a chance to show off his acting. Unlike McConaughey in A Time to Kill, Damon has to deal with a character void of nuance, subtlety and originality. His personality is best summed up in his much-repeated mantra, "I want to expose these people." Damon, struggling under the burden of such hackneyed lines, is given little chance to show sensitivity or idiosyncrasy. Over the course of the film, Rudy becomes less the hero and more of a stock supporting...
...dissertation, published in 1969, received much attention for its original research into the growth of American culture and art. The dissertation, titled "Patrons and Patriotism: The Encouragement of Fine Arts in the United States: 1790-1860," filled a large intellectual void in art history...
...world via a series of 10 divine emanations, or sephirot. By studying and imitating these, the mystic could progress ever closer to their source. Sixteenth century master Isaac Luria added a gloss on Creation: God, having graciously receded to make room, channeled a ray of light into the resulting void through mystic vessels. Some of them shattered--the world became broken--and fallen sparks of the eternal were trapped in every aspect of our mundane existence. It is every human's duty, through good works, prayer and mystical contemplation, to raise the sparks back up to the Godhead and repair...