Word: brashness
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...many ways, the dinner is a model for the show itself. The show is heavily infused with the (slightly clichd) flower-power flavor of the '60s and '70s (the era in which it was written): it's brash, it's carefree--make love, not theater. The problem is that everyone's so busy having fun in the show, Jesus' message sometimes get lost in the fuss. This is best emblematized in the twelve self-proclaimed Jesus "groupies." (The apostles are: Ari K. Appel '03, Stefan H. Atkinson '03, Brian J. Averell '02, Thomas N. Blodgett '01, Adam V. Kline...
...Extending this sort of brash independence and playful wickedness to the rest of the film, Rozema has departed quite a bit from the subdued, "pretty" tone taken by other Austen filmmakers.And in losing this, she's brought social criticism to the fore. The film practically drips with satire--but it's a satire that's not entirely Austen. Of course, the story itself mocks many of the mores of the society Austen depicts, and the movie, accordingly, is not without some excellent moments (Harold Pinter makes an excellent pre-Victorian patriarch, dropping proper ultimatums right and left...
...unabashedly sexual; in general, characters are more unguardedly flirtatious, witticisms a little sharper, plot changes less subtle; and crowning it all is the "sex scene". The infidelity discovered via implication in a letter in Austens novel becomes a visual, shocking debacle in the film, quite in character with the brash nature of the adaptation. Amazingly, the director has planned her story in a way that makes this acceptable by keeping with her more open, admittedly "extreme" tone throughout the movie, Rozema has us prepped for what would be the unthinkable--a sex scene (gasp!) in Mansfield Park...
...they said it wouldn't last. When a brash, upstart paper called USA Today burst onto newsstands in early 1982, scores of skeptics said there would never be a sustained market for a daily newspaper with no regional focus. Those nonbelievers are eating their words Wednesday with the news that USA Today now boasts the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in America, edging out longtime leader The Wall Street Journal. For many newspaper purists it was a sad day, as the flashy newcomer that first incorporated high-tech graphics and eye-popping front-page color knocked off a sophisticated...
Rock, despite his brash stage persona, is often subdued in private. His head writer, Jeff Stilson, says the man viewers see on Rock's specials is actually "Chris Rock times 1,000." Still, when a subject strikes a chord with him, Rock will go off on a comic jam session. Take white rap-rock. "It's kind of sad that when you watch MTV, you don't see a lot of cool white guys anymore that are cool without acting black," he says. "Like when I was a kid, Axl Rose was cool. David Lee Roth was cool. And they...