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...bleaker, in fact bleakest movie, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, which got shut out. Charlie Wilson, which comes out Christmas day, is a true-life kinda comedy about a Texas Congressman who funded the Afghan rebels against the invading Soviets in the 1980s. It's a feel-good war-on-terror movie, and it was cited five times. Pointedly, none of the big Iraq movies in a serioso vein - In the Valley of Elah, Lions for Lambs, Rendition, Redacted, The Kingdom - got even one. Hollywood can now go back to not putting its political conscience on screen, secure...
...into clean tech. "When I first proposed it, my partners scoffed," he says. But Grosser persisted, and today clean tech accounts for 10% of Foundation's portfolio. "This is not a problem that is going away soon," he says. "This will be a trend like PCs were for the 1980s and networking was for the 1990s...
...unmitigated dereliction of its duty. In the interest of transparency, our national espionage service today provides sophistic non-denials to the same questions—for instance, those concerning their involvement in assassination attempts and the Iran-Contra affair —that they simply ignored in the 1980s and earlier. But this pretension of openness makes little difference: The CIA proceeds today in similarly illicit, morally unacceptable endeavors with the winking complicity of an “ignorant” public. Much of the rhetoric of the ongoing “war on terror?...
...passion, as well as the quality of MacEwan’s prose, all lend themselves well to Wright’s eye for lush cinematography and emotional bravado. In many ways “Atonement” promises to harken back to the great literary adaptations of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Ismail Merchant and James Ivory adapted several classic British novels to the big screen. While the worse of these ended up being tedious opulent excess, the best, like 1992’s “Howard’s End” or 1985?...
Church, who was involved in the Human Genome Project—which deciphered the human DNA sequence for the first time, is trying to downsize and increase the accessibility of the process researchers used in the 1980s and 1990s...