Word: wilderness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four songs, by Matthew Wilder and David Zippel, propel the plot with lyric efficiency. But then, at the end, the racy Eddie Murphy spirit that has been held in check during the film explodes with a Motownish rave-up, True to Your Heart, that cascades over the closing credits. The song doesn't have much to do with the girl-power theme of this briskly enchanting film, but it's a perky parting gift from the Disney folks. The R.-and-B. group 98[degrees] and Stevie Wonder trade harmonic and harmonica riffs with some sassy horns, and euphoria saturates...
...Wilder Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and retired Chief of Pediatric Services at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Donald N. Medearis Jr. died Sept. 29 of heart failure...
...loss was immediately felt," said R. Alan Ezekowitz, the current Wilder professor of pediatrics and Medearis' successor...
...finance, why not let it regulate itself, with a kind of frontier justice meted out by the market? And as these superbanks battle to survive against the Microsofts of the world--a battle in which the outcome is still anything but certain--the Wild West promises to get even wilder...
...breaking away from the modern-day Midwestern world with A Thousand Acres and Moo, Jane Smiley has gambled--and won. The title character of The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton is much more than Laura Ingalls Wilder all grown up. Lidie confidently balances wonder and practicality to make herself, if not the most memorable literary heroine in recent times, than definitely an enjoyable one. "No one could describe what was true in Kansas or Missouri," she contemplates as she concludes her story. But with good old-fashioned honesty and a surprisingly plucky star, Jane Smiley manages...