Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Movies work by making us think that they're real. Most movies accomplish this by imitating life, so we forget that what we're seeing is illusion. When they're frightening, it is comforting to remember that "it's only a movie." Someone is filming this in a studio somewhere, with scores of people on hand to make sure the illusion never fails. "Calm down. It's only a movie...
...accustomed to a startling sight: the first First Lady ever to run for office, doing so while her husband still occupies his. But this phase of her campaign, which will involve two- or three-day jaunts around New York most weeks through the summer and fall, is designed to accomplish an array of other objectives...
...always found by collaborating and focusing on results you can really accomplish a lot more," Cellucci said...
...always found by collaborating and focusing on results you can really accomplish a lot more," Cellucci said...
...June 14], I am said to argue that the Holocaust is "unworthy of American tears." To the contrary, I repeatedly state in the book that tears--along with horror and awe--are perfectly appropriate ("worthy") responses to the Holocaust. My quarrel is with the notion that all these tears accomplish much. This, and not their worthiness, is the reason I ask in the book "why the eliciting of these responses from Americans is seen as so urgently important a task." PETER NOVICK Chicago...