Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cockpit door opens again. The master alarms start to whoop. A voice demands, "What's going on?" or "What's happening?" Then the same voice urges, "Pull with me! Pull with me!" Twenty-seven seconds into the dive, the horizontal elevators on the tail that normally operate in tandem to stabilize the aircraft wrench in opposite directions: the left side pulls to make the plane climb, the right one pushes to keep it in a dive. Gravity and the two powerful Pratt & Whitney engines on the Boeing 767 continue to force the plane down. A second later, a small shield...
...balletomanes have much more to cheer about than Meditation. Farrell's painstaking stagings are to a run-of-the-mill City Ballet performance as a freshly cleaned Old Master canvas is to a fuzzy reproduction. Steps you took for granted--or never really saw before--now stand out in high relief, unexaggerated yet breathtakingly clear and stylish. Most memorable of all are excerpts from Balanchine's Divertimento No. 15, a notoriously difficult dance whose intricate patterns have rarely been realized with such crystalline simplicity...
...want priority to be basically working for one master--we don't want to have a split appointment with another university," Clark said...
...impression that Thanksgiving does not hold as much emotional attachment for international students as it does for students from the United States," said Michelle L. Hewitt, assistant to the master of Mather House...
...word origins, monster must demonstrate a moral, a lesson, a value. What values do the Pocket Monsters demonstrate? "Pokemon appeals to children's desire for mastery," says Stephanie Pratola, a child psychologist. "That begins to develop at age six or seven. There are so many things to master--the games, knowing all the rules for the cards, what makes a good trade." It's a world of expertise in which kids can revel, free from parents who don't understand the rules. Pratola says the marketers have taken huge advantage of this developmental niche among children, but she spreads...