Word: centricity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...truism about American directors: you become who you were. Coppola, the former theater director and son of a classical musician, took the arty road, making operatic, actor-centric films that sometimes (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now) found large audiences. Lucas, who had written a third-grade theme that began, "Once upon a time in the land of Zoom..." and loved to tinker with cars, replayed his Modesto, Calif., adolescence in American Graffiti. Then he reworked the beloved comic books and B-movie serials of his youth into Star Wars, a film as stylized and sterile as a piece of abstract animation...
...fact that we are so tub-centric is not going to be effective,” Huidekoper says...
...seems like every conversation I have nowadays is some relationship blah-blah bullshit. Why must Harvard conversations consist primarily of watered-down relationship-centric circumlocution? Why do we leave bold, meaningful speech for living wage protesters and angry conservatives...
...after Bush reaps his political rewards in this year's midterm elections and wins election in 2004, he can rediscover his free market principles. In three years the FTAA negotiations - which hold far more promise of concrete results for the U.S. than the Africa-centric round currently underway in Doha, Qatar - will just be beginning, and the tariffs will just be ending. Maybe Bush will have his credibility back by then...
...mission of ethnic studies is to diversify the academic curriculum to include critical perspectives of ethnic communities that have been historically neglected by Euro-centric academia and to examine the social construction of race, class, gender and sexuality. Ethnic studies, the collective term that commonly refers to Afro-American, Asian American, Latino and Native American Studies, has often been connected to minority communities, but the scholarship seeks to diversify the curriculum to examine the experiences and perspectives of all ethnic groups, including “white” ethnic groups such as Irish and Jewish Americans. In essence, ethnic studies...