Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Now it's the Latin American's turn. When the movie industry limits its portayal of the Latin American, the audience observes him with this same limited perspective. This negative standpoint becomes the perspective from which the entire Latin American community is viewed. An audience sees a stereotypical Latin American...
Which brings us back to good ol' Mick Dundee and his nemesis Rico. If each character switched his nationality with the other, could the audience relate to a witty bushman from Colombia fighting against a drug lord from Australia?
"One hopes that the talk about violence and American character is the start of a period of national introspection..."
Yet Gorbachev's chance to become the pre-eminent global figure of the late 20th century depends more on what he does at home than at summits. The cold war exists not because of a lack of understanding between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.; it exists because they understand each...
What then is it about Hanks, 31, that has prompted comparisons with such old-fashioned leading men as Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart and Jack Lemmon? "A tremendous sense of timing and great believability," says Larry Brezner, producer of The 'Burbs, the movie Hanks is now shooting. "He picks out the...