Word: wands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...both impossibly glamorous and a kind of universal Every Woman. TIME wrote in its walkup to the nuptials: "This wedding on the cusp of high noon, in front of a world short on ritual and parched for romance, is in fact one grand pass of the royal wand [in which] the future is assured and everyone can be queen...
Twenty-seven minutes into the first half, Stauffer collected a pass from junior back Rebe Glass and waved her magic wand. Stauffer tore down the middle, had a chicken-fight with her defender (which she won), staved off a defensive assault from the flank, and ripped a cross shot into the net to give Harvard a 1-0 lead...
...things get much worse for his campaign, Dole will start waving his wizened arm like a magic wand, frantically trying to capture the delegates he needs to win in San Diego. He will tell and retell the story of how his right arm was paralyzed. If his poll numbers continue to slip, he will begin adding tasteless details about shrapnel fragments, and finally, he will start choking into tears as he recounts the tale of his sacrifice...
REBECCA M. WAND...
...love, the emotional crisis in the old man's life is replayed and miraculously resolved (we won't say how). Finally, the filmmakers concoct another miracle to unite the main characters from the trilogy's three episodes. That's the upside of narrative caprice: change your mind, wave a wand and everyone lives happily -- or, in Kieslowski's films, thoughtfully -- ever after...