Word: whirlwind
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...film ends with the equivalent of a typical Hollywood everyone-lives-happily-ever-after scenario: a ten minute cinematic whirlwind through the next eight years of Gilliam's new life. He and Indigo get married, have a son, and eventually move into the same Brooklyn brownstone Gilliam grew up in. What Gilliam now does for a living is a complete mystery. Lee does not take the time to explain this. He seems concerned only with driving home the virtues of the family and having his film neatly end the same way it began. The film opens with the young Gilliam...
...campaign it is, but an educational, not a political, one. This is the western headquarters of Teach for America, a radical attempt to woo promising graduates of the nation's top colleges into teaching. Whirlwind Wendy Kopp conceived the idea when she was an undergraduate at Princeton. She developed it in her senior thesis and, since her graduation in 1989, has pursued it with obsessive zeal, organizing recruiters at 100 campuses and raising $2 million in corporate and foundation gifts. The basic notion is that non-education majors, after a crash course of training, will serve two-year stints...
...little crisis," Sorensen says. "It is a little whirlwind in a teapot...
...late 1950s, it was a black, shorty nightgown -- presented not as a romantic gesture but to twit her for being too prim. "Bill was saying, in effect, 'Loosen up,' " she recalls. Safire was introduced to Helene in 1962 by motion-picture executive Edward Bleier. After a whirlwind wedding, Safire presented Bleier with a silver matchbox engraved, "To Ed, the perfect matchmaker from one of his matches...
Abstract expressionism, that image-destroying, paint-flinging whirlwind, held sway as America's -- and modernism's -- dominant style during the 1940s and '50s. Though its base was New York City, the abstract-expressionist ethos pervaded every artistic center in the U.S., including the San Francisco Bay area. There, during the late '40s, a flourishing local school had been influenced by the forceful presence of artist-teachers Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko...