Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...common citizenship and civic good, by exalting the notions of public purpose and mutual obligation, America could grope toward a cease-fire in its divisive culture wars. Rather than being rhetorical weapons used to divide the country, such words as values and family could become unifying themes in a quest for common ground. Only then will America begin to cope with poverty, race, welfare, discrimination, abortion and even the deficit...
Without half trying, Simple Men synthesizes outlaw cinema. It has a quest and a heist. It offers analysis of both Madonna (who "exploits her sexuality on her own terms; that means she names the price") and the Madonna ("She has a nice personality; she's also the Mother of God"). It has outlaws and in- laws. It's got tough guys waxing poetic and stupid guys acting tough. If Clint Eastwood were to play all the roles in a Woody Allen movie, it would sound like this: a flinty reading of home truths after the home burned down. "There...
...Democratic Convention in July, Shapiro joined forces with associate editor Priscilla Painton to cover the final months of Clinton's quest. Correspondent Elizabeth Taylor took up the Al Gore watch, while Richard Woodbury followed Ross Perot's on-again-off-again crusade. Through it all, White House correspondents Michael Duffy and Dan Goodgame monitored the Bush- Quayle campaign. And P.F. Bentley continued his exclusive photographic coverage of the Governor. The result is more than just Clinton's story. "You have to understand all those campaigns to write insightfully about why Clinton has been so successful," says senior editor Joelle Attinger...
Annaud at first seems an odd choice for director. The variety of landscapes and eras in his Quest for Fire, The Name of the Rose and The Bear suggests he is less an auteur than an explorer. And one with an imperialist bent: he pumps this intimate memoir into a David Lean-size epic. But once Annaud locks his movie in the dark bedroom, he finds metaphors of gesture for convulsive passions; he creates cliff-hanging drama from each shift of the girl's whim...
Since 1983, when Gusella first determined that the gene for Huntington's was located on the tip of the short arm of chromosome four, scientists have been engaged in a quest to define the exact nature of the biochemical abnormality, thought to be a defective protein or enzyme, which is responsible for its symptoms...