Word: craven
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took more than just practice, team-work and dedication to bring the Harvard men's hockey team to the ECAC semi-finals and finals last weekend in Lake Placid, N.Y.--it also took the skillful planning of one Katherine Craven, who organized the team's travel considerations and room and board arrangements...
Jeremy Blumenthal, on the other hand, endows the craven, envy-gnawed Charlie Fox with a peculiar loathesomeness. He makes the transition from bitter but unabated brown-nosing to livid insubordination flawlessly. His cloying gestures and demeanor would constitute hamming in any other show, but fit the Mamet bill perfectly...
...could also remind audiences of important issues rarely addressed in movies: the estrangement of genius ("He is better at this," says Joe Mantegna as Fred, "than I've ever been at anything in my life"), the sick thrill of competition (a lesser player stares at Josh with craven awe) and the romance of failure. "Maybe it's better not to be the best," Josh says as the competition heats up; "then you can lose and it's O.K."The movie's subject is unusual, but its themes are universal: a child's discovery of what makes him special...
Will anyone drive the beast out of Bosnia? The terror of getting involved is powerful. The craven thought is that one Bosnia begets another. But Bosnia will happen again and again elsewhere unless this one is stopped. Europe should have undertaken the job. But the Europeans long ago exhausted themselves in sponsoring such projects as colonialism and two world wars. They have ended up smug, fat-bottomed and morally useless...
Largely in reaction to that craven and gratuitous behavior, Congress has generated a flurry of bills that would attach political conditions to China's most-favored-nation status. In fact, MFN is a misnomer: it implies special treatment but really means normal, equal treatment. All but a handful of the 187 countries on earth have MFN, including such pariahs and miscreants as Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya and Burma...