Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need an outsider to help transform the fake into reality. Brother and sister are transported into the 50s television show "Pleasantville." David tries to keep the show going as scripted while his sister Jennifer immediately rebels. As the semi-robotic citizens gradually come to life, splashes of color begin to permeate the black-and-white world. The process is best represented in the paintings of Jeff Daniels' inarticulate soda-shoppe proprietor, whose self-expression increases in richness and assurance as his palate of colors expands. Great drama it may not be, the movie is a unique experience. Lynn...
...begin, you can't lose with City of Angels: it is an ingenious capsule of the LA. myth as known through film noir, delivered with punch and spirit. It works with the typical film noir techniques of flashback, voiceover and femmes fatales, in a cruller of a plot that cult leaders, media moguls, starlets, prostitutes and stepmothers--a veritable buffet of the desperate, despicable and demented, In a musical that can finally be only derivative and parodic, the mainstage production of City of Angles surprises and moves with disarmingly evocative music and a clawingly ambient might only have ever existed...
...They're dragging their ass," the guard said."It's been going on for years now. They got a new[negotiator], so it's just going to begin all overagain...
...professionals finish their lip-sync routine, the hostess drag queen announces the seven to 10 audience members that will compete and calls them up one by one. (S) he puts on some thumpy music, usually fuzzy techno but it can be anything appropriate for hip shaking. The contestants begin to dance and disassemble their outfits. Afterwards the hostess dances an extravaganza finale...
Despite the concerns, Hankins said a departmental committee will probably begin designing the world history course next year. The course would be introduced in 2000-01 at the earliest...