Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always a primitive terror to be cast out of the tribe and made to wander as a stranger. Today a famous person--Arnold Schwarzenegger, say, or Sylvester Stallone, those universal action figures whose films require the fewest subtitles and therefore address masses most eloquently in remote cultures--might go anywhere on earth and never be a stranger. Is that desirable? Or a horror? Such planetary recognition may be as dangerous, in a different way, as being an unknown alien once...
...densely plotted, so richly peopled, that you can't summarize it in a sentence. Or a paragraph. Or several of them. Imagine, as well, a film set in the exotic past--Los Angeles in the noirish '50s--that tends to make the mass audience skittish. And imagine too a cast of terrific actors that lacks the reassuring presence of a megastar who can, as they say, open a picture...
...hungry for an Ivy title. Standing in its way is a formidable Crimson bunch that returns its leading scorer in captain Tom McLaughlin and a goaltender who amassed an 11-1 record and 0.78 goals-against-average last season in junior Jordan DuPuis, as well as a balanced supporting cast...
This year, the Crimson expects to end its 10-year exile from the Ivy championship. The 1997 cast is star-studded: sophomore Rich Linden, the quarterback so good they named a street in Cambridge after him; a defense which allowed a stingy 164 points in 10 games; and sophomore Chris Menick, who rushed for 265 yards and scored five touchdowns against Kyoto in March...
Michael Krantz wrote that the lesson learned from the Microsoft-Apple deal is that "Art may cast a brighter light in the short term, but Commerce generally wins big in the final tally." The truth of the matter is that Commerce invariably needs Art in order to win big (e.g., the Windows imitation of the Mac icon format). Conversely, any artist honest enough to admit it will acknowledge the value of Commerce in his success. In the final analysis, the average consumer doesn't care who wins, Apple or Microsoft, Jobs or Gates. All we want is a product that...