Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past--Ayurvedic medicine, say, or Tai Chi, and, more deeply, a sense of community and continuity that has breathed new life into the "old-fashioned" American values of family loyalty and hard work. In cultures as in households, the old pass on their wisdom, and the young bring their reviving innocence...
...working with local governments to bring down Bin Laden's cells and has offered a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to his capture. Government agents have launched psychological warfare, leaking reports to the Pakistani press of U.S. assassination teams sent to take out Bin Laden. The stories have apparently had an effect. He is reported to be sleeping in a different location every night...
...civil rights rhetoric of the '60s, as he railed against the "virtual whitewash" on network TV. In private he was just as confrontational. "I don't like this diplomacy s___," he whispered to an aide before a meeting with CBS Entertainment president Leslie Moonves in August. "We should just bring out the picket signs, bar the doors, get arrested and make the 6 o'clock news...
...Highsmith had two bolts of brilliance. The first was to let the bad guy get away with his crimes. All mystery writers are murderers; they get into the mind, under the skin, of a killer, if only to determine how the foul deed can be accomplished. Then, typically, they bring in a detective to unravel the plot and cuff the culprit. Highsmith simply ditched the civilized pretense of justice avenged. She tore the final, comeuppance chapter out of Ripley's story, left him giddy with triumph--and let him flourish in four more books. The snake, having shed...
Screen time is different from novel time, and it takes a lot of it for Ishmael to rediscover his "good heart" and bring forth the hidden truth that will free the accused. While he dawdles and moons, the wind starts to whistle through the story's riggings and we begin to suspect that there was always less in it than met an eye distracted by Guterson's fancy writing...