Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take the small-and-noble path, which may consign them to the fringe approval of the critics. Or they can take go Hollywood. There they may find readier financing for their off-center dreams; but they may also be on the fast track to hackdom, scrounging for films chosen by studio bosses. They pay your money and they take your choice--your independence...
...mania of his times but not an innocent one. He was a dedicated communist who lied to everyone, including Nathan's father, about his adherence to the dictates of Moscow. On the other hand, the forces that destroyed him were not particularly admirable either, beginning with an ill-chosen wife and her vindictive daughter. But even they are not really, in Roth's novel, ultimately culpable. At the end, Nathan stares at the night sky and imagines the stars as the deceased people in his story, freed from praise or censure, burning bright. Roth's fiction achieves at this moment...
Black is black and white is white, and never the twain shall meet. In a period of what most Americans deem racial healing. director Brett Milanowski of the small, professional Peabody House Theater in Sommerville has chosen to mount The Death of Bessie Smith to punctuate our healing with a question mark. Despite the good intentions of the cast and some genuine moments of radiant acting, The Death of Bessie Smith fails in its appointed role as wakeup call to the insidious prejudice which still permeates our society. The play may not accomplish precisely what the director...
...would care if instead of going through the charade of a representative election once more, candidates were chosen instead by picking straws...
...fact, some students have chosen to attend regular courses which overlap with the Ec 10 lectures, choosing to watch the lectures on videotape outside of class...