Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cant go through there," shouts an officer at a woman slithering around the barrier in hopes of gaining access to Littauer--a building in the exact opposite direction from the site of the speech. The woman objects, but the cop's not caving. Once you put the police in charge, it seems, there's no room left for a sensible, case-by-case approach to these kinds of situations: the rules are the rules, and that's that...
...Apple is, not coincidentally, the site of Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color barrier in 1947. Where else could Branch Rickey have pulled off integrating the national pastime during the Jim Crow era--very liberal...
...sometimes even engaging, even if they are just a gimmick to put new complications in old situations. Director Jon Avnet does a good job of making the culture shock as real for the audience as it is for Moore. This is achieved mostly through the exploitation of the language barrier to show the foreign and conflicting pursuits of the two sides...
...just as all the leads and threads of intrigue that the movie had developed seem to be about to come to fruition, the language barrier finally proves insurmountable in providing a satisfying conclusion. In the end, and at the crucial moment, the movie trips over the very crutch which it had used the whole time, and leaves the audience somewhat disappointed...
...related to the idea that when you get into a place like Harvard, you suddenly feel separated from the rest of the world," she said. "I was inspired by the comments on how to break that barrier...