Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hate to do this to you, but... Imagine your parents having sex. Worse yet, your grandparents. I know, it's awful, one of those things that couldn't have been--but we all know it happened. The idea crashes through the barrier of your typical illusions of parents/grandparents--sterile virgins who exist only in the context of...well, you. Breaking down these types of barriers is exactly what director Patricia Rozema attempts to do in her rather unorthodox adaptation of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. Indeed, Rozema crashes through the "garden party" of archetypal Austen movies (think Emma Thompson and Kate...
...roommate, who is an Orthodox Jew, is not. This does not mean that I am attracted to him, nor do his religious beliefs stand as a barrier to our communication about issues of sexual orientation...
...course, on this question of old age, science is still a baby. There are plenty of biologists who believe that aging and death are as inevitable as taxes. No one really knows if human longevity will come up against a fixed barrier somewhere or if, like the sound barrier, it is there only to be broken. Some gerontologists say the limit of the average life-span is 85 years; others, 95, 100, 150 and beyond. No one understands the economic barriers either. Ronald Lee, a demographer at the University of California, Berkeley, calculates that for each year...
There just aren't many like him anymore. Sure, the San Diego Chicken barnstorms around the country, but the man performing hides behind a costume. There was no barrier between Patkin and his audience...
...Japanese animation has an advantage over other film genres because the energy and focus of the message isn't diffused or obscured by overdone special effects. So many movies like Star Wars: Phantom Menace seem almost like spectacles more than epic adventures in their own right.Japanese animation transcends this barrier and returns to the emotional center of the adventure. In that sense, it reminds us why such films as The Neverending Story or the original Stars Wars movies were worth watching in the first place. As a recent convert myself, I can see why all readers out of the loop...