Word: besting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Despite his sometimes enormous success (Interview grossed over $110 million in the US alone), Jordan remains self-effacing about his work, an of course, his Oscar. "Nobody knows who got the Oscar for best script. It's the consolation prize, isn't it? It's the one, they should've given it best picture-'Oh, we'll give him best screenplay.' They remember best actor, don't they, and best picture, that's it. [pauses] They definitely don't remember screenplay...
...Engineers' junior forward Brad Tapper and sophomore forward Matt Murley are going to do their best to penetrate the Crimson blue line...
...premise is intriguing: Scarry claims we imagine best when guided word by word, as in great literature. Whatever we imagine without this guidance is dull and unsatisfying compared to the detail and life our imaginings attain under the tutelage of Homer or Flaubert (two of Scarry's favorite examples). She claims that the "ordinary enfeeblement of images has a striking exception in the verbal arts, where images somehow do acquire the vivacity of perceptual objects, and it is the purpose of this book to trace some of the ways this comes about." Literature contains structures and formats that allow...
...fired, for no apparent reason, from her job working at a factory. From there she attempts to secure other forms of work, but is continually turned down. The search continues, eventually becoming an obsession in her young life, to the point that Rosetta loses touch with her mother, her best friend, and eventually herself. Fortunately, in examining the minute details of this deplorable world, the narrative begins to extrapolate beyond mere plot points, and becomes a searing indictment of the system that Rosetta attempts to indict...
...that, perhaps, is because it was the first one I saw. Performed with live music (a combination of techno and opera), each show is an apocalyptic circus of startling imagination. Everything is designed to be an illusion--to take you in one direction and then make you refigure (the best example I can think of in "O" has a clown drifting on a raft in an ocean; a shark fin begins to swim around him and he panics; he suddenly calms down, picks up a fishing pole and hooks the fin, pulling it up to reveal a crescent moon which...