Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Kennedy: There's bound to be a reprisal from the Soviet Union. Just going in and taking Berlin by force. Which leaves me only one alternative, which is to fire nuclear weapons, which is a hell of an alternative, and begin a nuclear exchange...
...Soviet ships begin to turn away from the quarantine zone. Rusk whispers his famous comment to Bundy...
...African-American moviemaking. "You really have to gross $100 million to change perceptions," says Hudlin. "Then you get into a situation where Hollywood has to leave you alone and let you do your thing." In other words, if enough moviegoers start talking back to the screen, maybe Hollywood will begin to listen...
Most movies don't begin by asking the viewer to define a word, but Wim Wenders' intensely bizarre The End of Violence does. From the moment the voice-over at the opening credits declares that we should define violence "since we're making a movie about it," it becomes clear that this film is stubbornly going to refuse to submit itself to any familiar genre...
Towards the end of the album, things really begin to fall apart. The songs get longer and lose the one thing that made them at all compelling in the first place: pop song structure. Without verse-cho-rus-verse (or, in some cases on YES!!, chorus-chorus-chorus), Knox is completely lost. The final 18-minute track is a masturbatory opus of noise, static and tape and synth-looped sound effects...