Sentences with phrase «acts as a tribute»

As well as acting as tribute to the early leadership of the program and the group of young people that formed around the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in Houston.

What we've got here then is a rather good 3D platformer that effectively acts as a tribute to 90s jumping fun.

In the end, [i] Harvest Moon: Magical Melody [/ i] is a game for the fans, and acts as a tribute for those fans.

A series of loading screens commemorate some of your finest achievements in the first game, collating beautiful ink work that acts as a tribute to you, the player.

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What this woman has done will be told wherever the Gospel is preached, Jesus said, so that long after she is dead and gone, her act of tribute will stand as a perpetual memorial to her.

But now Labour look all at sea in the new reality in Scotland and nationwide while Tim Farron attempts his own Sturgeon tribute act positioning the Lib Dems as the party of the 48 % post EU referendum.

ACT UP can justly be proud of what it has achieved in AIDS: it is a tribute to their work that other health groups, such as people with diabetes and women with breast cancer, are now joining them at meetings in New York to learn their campaigning methods.

John Lithgow is excellent... it's a tribute to both his acting and the writing (as sharp and tight as ever) that many of his scenes have only three or four lines of dialogue, but resonate deeply and give you the creeps (especially a scene where Lithgow picks a fight behind a bar).

Franco, who, like Wiseau, also acts as director here, has crafted a loving tribute to the film, its fans and also film - making in general.

John Lithgow is excellent... it's a tribute to both his acting and the writing (as sharp and tight as ever) that many of his scenes have only three or four lines

There is Emma Stone of course, but also Meryl Streep, who gives one of her ripest, richest, gamiest and maddest performances (something like her Maggie Thatcher tribute act in The Iron Lady) as the off - key society warbler in Florence Foster Jenkins.

The ending climax was an actual tribute to restraint, both in his acting style as well as storytelling.

It is also a tribute to the talent of Kirk Douglas, who here takes on the role of a French colonel in the trenches of the First World War with such explosive energy that one realizes how many films (and directors) were unworthy of Kirk's genius as an actor — his first acting role, by the way, was onstage as the servant in Chekhov's The Three Sisters, with Catherine Cornell, Judith Anderson, and my mother as the sisters and Ruth Gordon as the dreadful sister - in - law.

But after adding more categories, including career tributes and TV and acting prizes, the ceremony now functions as the first official stop on the long awards season trail.

Smith pays tribute to the «Yoda of acting,» who appeared in films such as «Django Unchained,» the «Kill Bill» series, and his own «Red State»

Recommendation: Sincere, intense and passionately acted, Patriots Day is a certifiable crowd - pleaser that serves as Peter Berg's most solidly crafted tribute to human resilience in several outings.

There are some great ideas at play, especially the implication that Katniss» new status as the symbol of the revolution is not all that different from her life as a surviving tribute in the first act of Catching Fire.

Figures from the world of film paid tribute to the American entertainer, known for hit films such as the Nutty Professor and for his comedy double act with Dean Martin.

The Northwest premiere of Matt Ross's Captain Fantastic, filmed in Washington, will screen as part of a tribute presentation to Viggo Mortensen on Saturday, June 11, where the acclaimed actor will be presented with the Festival's Outstanding Achievement in Acting Award and interviewed on stage at the flagship SIFF Cinema Egyptian.

This April marks the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a civil rights law enacted as a tribute to the slain leader's life, the Fair Housing Act.

With performances as varied as opera, symphonies and even a Metallica tribute act, there is sure to be something worth seeing during your stay.

In one instance, the engraved marble was as much an act of preservation as a tribute.

In 2007, film critic Jonathan Romney described Starr's new silent film Theda: «In a 40 - minute black - and - white film Theda British artist Georgina Starr, best known for her series of works inspired by the 1965 thriller Bunny Lake is Missing, pays tribute to this stormiest of divas and undertakes an archeology of gestural art of the silent - era actress (Theda Bara), drawing on the styles of several other now forgotten grande - dames, such as Barbara La Marr and Maud Allan... the film is divided into three parts «prelude», «act» and «epilogue»... but «prelude» is the real coup: in a long single take, Starr runs through the codified expressive repertoire of the Theda - era performer with such precision that any ironic distance evaporate.

Sometimes soft - spoken and quietly emotional, sometimes fired up and loudly passionate, Kennedy paid tribute to the 17 killed and 16 wounded in the Feb. 14 shooting in Parkland, praised the eruption of activism among student - survivors, and delivered a searing takedown of those who have repeatedly failed to act to curb gun violence as the toll from gun deaths has continued to grow.

2001: Acted as the producer for the Annual tribute Show to the Legend Guitarist Randy Rhodes, Las Vegas with the following responsibilities

After taking control of BTA Bank in 2005, he said he spurned demands from Nazarbayev to give him a stake in the lender as an act of tribute.