Word: transcendent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...culture. This wink-and-a-nod acceptance, this implicit endorsement of illicit thrills, has been a continuing motif in movies, late-night television and rock music. My personal life may rarely intersect with impoverished drug addicts, but the entertainment media created in the image of people like me easily transcend these barriers of class, race and geography...
...original about piling up most of our worst parental nightmares in one movie and then daring to make a midsummer comedy out of them. It really shouldn't work, but it does. The movie does not linger too long over any moment or mood, and it permits characters to transcend type, offering a more surprising range of response to events. Martin, for example, gets to do distraction as well as obsession, and Robards is allowed sentiment as well as cynicism. Because Ron Howard, who was responsible for Cocoon, has a talent for ensemble hubbub, there may be more good, solid...
...despite these efforts, students say discussion of ethics outside the module often fails to transcend token references...
...Crimson staff is able to debate whether you see this ad in the paper simply because we own a press. Speech is not free--only some have access to a press. That is why this paper's responsibility to its readers must transcend the editors' sentiments on this issue...
...such politics must end before this country will ever achieve the non-discriminatory, color-blind society to which the Constitution aspires. If Lee Atwater can help bring us closer to such a society by showing all that their interests transcend color, the more power to him. Strike up the band...