Word: informality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...success of these four films (and of the other films presented during the film festival) lies in their ability both to ingratiate and to inform. While I could relate to the interpersonal and interpersonal conflicts depicted (haven't we all at one time or another rebelled against our parents? disagreed with our friends? given up something of value for someone else's sake?), the environment in which the universalisms were set clued me into previously unknown aspects of Jewish culture. Before the Boston Jewish Film Festival, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was all bombs and faceless terrorists, and who knew...
Signs were hung throughout the building and over each clock to inform students that the clocks were out of order. As of last night, the signs were still covering the clocks throughout the building...
...best site I visited, by far, was one available only to 15,000 members of the Kaiser Permanente HMO (I had a guest pass). When you ask nurses there a question, they can access your medical record to help inform their reply. Kaiser plans to offer the ultrasecure, password-protected website to all its 9 million members next year. What will they think of next...
...pain and mystery implicit when a father breaks into the song My Yiddische Mama between rosaries only to have his altar-boy son later edit the writings of the Lubavitcher rebbe; and on the "dead parents and overbearing parents...the fears of emptiness and the hopes of bounty" that inform such God-wrestling. So generous and natural a memoirist is Dubner, however, that awareness of his book's formidable double motor recedes in our pleasure at his recollections...
...held onto until the twenty-ninth. But I wasn't. And the arbitrariness of pains, labor and birth 21 years ago have made 28 my lucky number, orange (from the imminent Halloween) my favorite color and October somehow a poignant month. Arbitrariness and coincidence take on meaning and inform the temporal map through which I navigate my life. Twenty-eight is one signpost, autumn another and the paragraph on Scorpio in Cosmo's horoscope a third. That's why I have a responsibility to reconfirm this arbitrary meaning for myself each year by celebrating on my birthday no matter what...