Word: manifestation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After saying yes, Fox went looking for a partner to share the risk, and possible reward, of a period piece replete with effects but devoid of major stars. Partnering on big pictures is increasingly common--Braveheart and Starship Troopers were team efforts--but the pitfalls are dramatically manifest in the feuding over Titanic...
...conventional stage literalism. Dance numbers brim with vibrant, African-carnival colors; the big action sequences, like a wildebeest stampede conveyed by wheels and masks, dazzle with their allusive originality. Some of the most striking images are the simplest. Women with grass headdresses stand in a row and sway to manifest wind in the African savanna. When the lionesses grieve over the death of their King, Mufasa, they pull ribbons of fabric from their eyes to suggest tears...
...lying to himself: that is delusion. A nation lying to itself: that is policy. Thus the death of half a million American Indians is euphemized as manifest destiny. The French, after their craven accommodation to the occupying Nazis, had their own little lie. Collaborators? Mais non--we were all in the Resistance...
...Whitman loses and Weld and Wilson no longer take active roles in national politics, the damage will manifest itself in two areas. Their absence from the national scene will deny moderate Republicans the proof they need to believe that their brand of candidate can win and govern effectively. And the fate of the 2000 nomination will remain even more firmly in the hands of the conservative Religious Right...
...defined or looking up different words with the root "anthro" in the dictionary to try to find their meanings. Every classroom has a small computer center where girls can work on projects or run programs. Girls raise their hands often and willingly, the exuberance of learning and adolescence made manifest...