Word: crushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...threadbare bush jacket and frayed rubber sandals, Ho Chi Minh cultivated the image of a humble, benign "Uncle Ho." But he was a seasoned revolutionary and passionate nationalist obsessed by a single goal: independence for his country. Sharing his fervor, his tattered guerrillas vaulted daunting obstacles to crush France's desperate attempt to retrieve its empire in Indochina; later, built into a largely conventional army, they frustrated the massive U.S. effort to prevent Ho's communist followers from controlling Vietnam. For Americans, it was the longest war--and the first defeat--in their history, and it drastically changed...
...wigs falling halfway down his back. In his butchier Titanic incarnation--where, of course, he has the added advantage of getting to die dreamily in the presence of his beloved, as he also did in his breakthrough movie, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet--he is an ideal first crush: not too hot, not too cold, just right. Leonardo DiCaprio: A Biography expands on this point: "The woman that does capture Leo's heart will be in for some special romantic time with Leo... 'I'll definitely say that when I'm alone with a girl, I'm doing the baby...
Everybody wants to be Neve's friend these days. She's one of the recent crush of young actors whom Hollywood powerbrokers are starting to bank on to bring a new generation of fans into movie theaters. Her rise has been rocket-fueled. She was born and raised in Guelph, Ont. Her father, a high school drama teacher, and her mother, who ran a dinner theater, divorced when Neve was young. At age 9 she joined the National Ballet School of Canada; at 14 she dropped out of school to join the Toronto production of The Phantom of the Opera...
...stored them an album that he touchingly labels Bostockiana. It is during Giles' intense periods of fantasy, that Hurt's superb acting conveys to us just how deep Giles' emotions extend. John Hurt adopts vacant facial expressions and daydreamy tones of voice that prove this is more than a crush. At one point, when Giles is supposed to give a lecture on some esoteric element of literature, he instead delves into the topic of acting. As he describes what makes a good actor, we see Giles' mental visualizations of Ronnie's various smiles. Hurt skillfully portrays his character's anguish...
...learn from this," said Parker. "We're going to to crush UMass this weekend...