Word: barring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision of the National Bar Association (NBA)--the nation's largest organization of black judges and lawyers--to invite Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to speak at its annual July convention has drawn sharp criticism from a number of the organization's members including A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., public service professor of jurisprudence at the Kennedy School of Government...
...pretend it's real. In The Truman Show the rules are more complicated. We are watching a movie that purports to be a TV show and that we (along with everyone else but Truman) know is fake. Occasionally we watch "viewers" of the show, in their home or a bar, reacting to some dramatic moment. And at times we watch Christof and his crew directing the show. Weir, like his alter ego Christof, lays the process of magicmaking and manipulation open before us. Here's how we do it, people: music and mirrors...
...still--in, for example, a scene that reunites Truman with his long-absent father--the film reaches an improbable emotional intensity. The two men hug; the folks in a bar cheer; Christof cues the swelling music and crinkles with paternal pride; and the grand fakery of it all works its sorcery on the heart. In one scene you get the truth in an actor's lie, the art in the oldest melodramatic tricks, the gotcha! of cinema's power to create a simpler, more beautiful world on screen. This is pure moviemaking, naked and irresistible...
...spaces on its schedule next season. Producers are not happy with these demands, and while they are worried that quality will become secondary to economics, many feel they don't have a choice. Says Paramount Network Television president GARRY HART: "If a network is going to put the bar at one level for shows they have ownership in and another level for those they don't, we have real concerns...
...thinking about the innocent people who had been there in Yankee Stadium. They're thrilled now. They can't foresee the scene at the neighborhood tavern when they casually acknowledge having witnessed David Wells' perfect game and some wise guy at the other end of the bar says, "I guess you were at the game when Bobby Thompson hit his home run too. And, listen: to someone who was in the stands, did it really look like the Babe pointed at the centerfield wall before he put one over...