Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...session really clarified the issue [of the 2000 census]", said Ari E. Waldman '02. "I understand that the whole debate is 90 percent politically motivated, but it is too important to simply cast off because it will determine the political domination for the next 10 years...
...birth to when she was 14; for Oprah, Beloved was a central fable of her race and sex. She knew she had to produce a movie version, though she was new at that job. And though she had appeared in only two films at the time, she meant to cast herself in the lead role. "I think I can play Sethe," she told Morrison. "And if I can't, I'll learn...
...four shifting, demanding roles, in which Glover would be the only other star. Newton, the Anglo-African actress who illuminated Flirting and Jefferson in Paris, came to the first script reading with an early, teasing hint of her character's mannerisms; her regal beauty explains how Beloved can cast a spell over Sethe and her brood. In the role of Baby Suggs, Beah Richards, who 30 years ago won an Oscar nomination for playing Sidney Poitier's mother in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, serves as both Greek chorus and black preacher; her sermons give the film heft...
...follow a boy she hardly knows to New York City. Anybody who has ever fallen in love with a stranger and wondered what might have happened if the infatuation had been acted on will find Felicity's premise tinglingly evocative. That, combined with polished execution and an enormously appealing cast, may make the hype prophetic rather than a curse...
...genially alcoholic writer dad (Kris Kristofferson). Based on the memoirish novel by James Jones' daughter Kaylie, this beautifully observed film is a domestic epic in miniature: of precocious kids and stern teachers, of maids and their amours, of complex friendships ended by fate's whim. In an exemplary cast the standouts are Luisa Conlon and Leelee Sobieski as the daughter at seven and 14, and Anthony Roth Costanza as her brilliantly effeminate best friend. The Merchant-Ivory attention to period detail often seems like the movie equivalent of good penmanship. But here it accrues a kind of ethical eloquence. These...