Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Greenspan was careful to make the usual rounds: a brief brood on the menace of wage pressures; and a light-hearted refusal to mention interest rates...
...Control, is a testimony to the rest of our lives. A one-line summary of the film: it's about four guys who love their jobs. Five if you count Morris, who has built a unique career on his quirky metadocumentaries (Gates of Heaven, The Thin Blue Line, A Brief History of Time). He is just the filmmaker to find four kindred spirits, united only in their fascination with pursuits that have something to do with animals. They might be anyone with the genial obsession to get to the office a half-hour early...
Pacing is problematic as well: opening up at hyper-speed, the movie rushes to get through the exposition necessary for the convoluted plot. After the kidnapping, though, the action slows almost to a halt; the rest of the movie moves sluggishly, with brief speedy sections. The aggravation of this halting progress is compounded by the fact that during the lulls, rather than actually develop his characters, Boyle chooses instead to meander around the lifeless world that he has created...
Fulbeck ends with a brief epilogue, in which he remarks, "My dad's white. My mom's Asian. What am I supposed to think about these images?" This final speech, discussing the necessity of art to sometimes infuriate to achieve its purpose, accrues even greater vehemence: it's spoken alone, apart from the plethora of visual images and overlapping speech which compose the rest of the piece...
Because Jiang's schedule in the United States is tight and his visit to Harvard brief, the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research is sponsoring a public discussion of issues concerning China on Monday, November...