Word: moment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment will be electric, and not only because John Paul helped inflame the fervor for freedom in his Polish homeland that has swept like brush fire across Eastern Europe. Beyond that, the meeting of the two men symbolizes the end of the 20th century's most dramatic spiritual war, a conflict in which the seemingly irresistible force of Communism battered against the immovable object of Christianity...
...Marty have no choice. They must return again to the scene of their first intervention in history, that high school dance that climaxed Future I. All along this story line, Marty has been encountering variations on himself, his progenitors and heirs. But when he is reinserted into this moment in time and starts to meet himself and the situations of the previous movie, Back to the Future II ceases to be a sequel. It becomes instead a kind of fugue, brilliantly varying and expanding on previously stated themes. And it accomplishes this while retaining its powerful narrative drive...
...sprucing up comes not a moment too soon. The resorts have been losing business to the cruise lines, which account for some 60% of the traffic to the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tourists with limited time or money to spend are choosing ships over land-based resorts as a better value. "The cruise business is just killing the island resorts," says Jim Cammisa, a Miami-based travel consultant. "Like it or not, Americans are not adventurous travelers. The ; cruise offers clean accommodations, good food and consistency...
...Harvard problem is not a priority, and rightly so," Schkolnick says. "[The MCAD] has very immediate problems" like discrimination in housing and the job market. She says she feels that, "sometime, if they have a free moment, they will...
Angered, Boesman violently rips apart the shack he has built, just as the white men tore apart the couple's shanty on the day before. Then he is quiet, all energy spent. After a tense moment, Lena reaches out her hand to Boesman, takes her share of their belongings on her back and walks with him off stage...