Word: grandeur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...point. Storey slid it over to Scorsune.From almost the same spot that Storey scored hislast-second goal last season, Scorsune drilled ashot through traffic that sailed pastwell-screened freshman netminder Jason Braun tothe stick side. The shot sent the Fleet Centerinto an uproar--and temporarily gave the Crimsonvisions of grandeur...
...night the scandal broke, I watched from a few feet away in the State Dining Room as the President and his wife Hillary honored people who had helped restore the old mansion to its current grandeur. The scandal raged outside, and in a soft, golden light, Clinton sat, chin up, eyes steady, outwardly untouched beneath the portrait of Abraham Lincoln as his wife talked of their love of the White House and its legends. I wondered then (and still do) if there would ever be a reconciliation of the forces at war within this young man and, because...
...Prince of Egypt was conceived, according to the DreamWorks founding trio, during the initial burst of excitement of inventing the company in 1994. In a meeting at Spielberg's house, the talk turned to animation. Spielberg said he wanted to do a project with the grandeur of The Ten Commandments. "What a great idea," Geffen said...
...film begins with a sweeping seven-minute prologue that evokes the misery of the slaves, the grandeur of the Egyptian empire and the infant Moses' famous basket ride on the Nile, until he is rescued by the Pharaoh's wife. In the Bible, Moses is rescued by Pharaoh's daughter, but the filmmakers decided a close relationship between Pharaoh's son Rameses and an adopted brother Moses would be more compelling than their interacting as uncle and nephew. Some other dramatic devices were also invented. "We have 88 minutes to tell 70 years in the life of Moses," says Katzenberg...
...paper. Another striking moment came when she said, nonchalantly, that today's Ivy League graduates are nothing more than "little blind gnomes," two generations of students who have been crippled by postmodern professors. Her cause was the preservation of art and facts, as well as the restoration of grandeur to teaching and learning--all noble goals that, she argued, have been utterly ignored or destroyed by this thing called postmodernism...