Word: touchingly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Count on Awakenings, written by Steve Zaillian, to mop up at Oscar- $ nominations time. Any movie about mental disturbance (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rain Man) is likely to touch Academy members, not so much because it treats a serious issue as because it parades the performer's craft. To watch De Niro shrink into the shadow of catatonia is to be made aware of his great gifts of body control, of withdrawing into character, of seeming to be. It's an awesome show that reveals more about De Niro than about the man he is playing. Like...
...years," confirms Barbara. "But then I always think what I'm doing is best. I haven't had too many bad ones, you know." In fact, the First Lady has had trying times: she has ridden the political roller coaster with her husband, seen divorce and financial trouble touch her children, been slowed by illness. Yet she smothers it all with what one close friend describes as her "big optimism...
...could stay in touch with one another...
...Iraqi people will feel the pain first and most deeply," he said. "Not the Iraqi military and not the government." The question is whether that is any reason not to let sanctions work a while longer -- long enough at least to find out whether the pain will eventually touch Saddam...
Unlike dreary discount stores or outlets of the past, which tended to be about as cozy as an airplane hangar, Sawgrass Mills has a Disneyesque ambiance that offers fun along with bargains. The innovative Coral Gables, Fla., firm Arquitectonica designed the mall in a wacky alligator shape, a nice touch considering its location at the edge of the Everglades. The Florida theme extends from the logo, a saw-toothed alligator, to parking-lot markers (a yellow toucan, a pink flamingo, etc.), to a windswept-looking Hurricane Food Court, complete with wind sounds and swirling banners. Shoppers stroll under palmetto trees...