Word: daringness
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Shortly after midnight on Dec. 18, just five days after the shuttle Endeavour returned from the daring mission to repair the Hubble telescope, scientists secretly put the refurbished instrument to its first test. They ordered the Hubble to point toward a bright star and beam its image to Earth. Anxiously...
Hanks' Andy is a wonderful fellow: chipper, supremely competent, lavishing genial respect on colleagues high and low. He also seems a good subject for a sensibly daring film about AIDS. And for its first hour, Philadelphia is a pretty fine social comedy about private pain; it lays out the dilemma...
"In the past, there's been a kind of lack of imagination about how to define what should be taught," she says. "Within many disciplines, some of the best work is being done by people who are daring and able to combine different studies."
A daring Christmas Carol, transposed to the ghetto
In short, A Community Carol, Dickens transposed to the ghetto, is daring but definitely not disrespectful. In a season when most regional theaters abandon creative integrity for a gold-digging, anodyne version of A Christmas Carol replete with chestnuts (in both senses) but not a lot of consciousness raising, the...