Word: clashed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...groups of women enter separately and stay on until the climactic ending. Three post-teeny boppers, freed by "technology" to "love" their men wholeheartedly, clash with a pair of prudish widows. Ada, who tells us she performs sex for money, possesses a cynicism which clashes with the young women's naivete about finding true love in the world. And a suicidal woman, who decides to kill herself because of her boyfriend, provides contrast to Ada's active resolve to do away with men's control over women, and to the widows' passive acquiescence to their husbands' control...
...join before the turn of the century. Sounds like a good idea, bringing all of the Continent under one protective umbrella. But if the U.S. and its NATO allies would not fight for blood-soaked Bosnia and Herzegovina, will they do so for Hungary? How about Poland in a clash with Russia? Do the Atlantic democracies have the will and the resources to spread their security guarantees over Central and Eastern Europe, taking on the unending feuds, ethnic hatreds and border disputes that have poisoned the region for centuries? And if they do, are they also prepared for the hostile...
...suspense which the movie attempts to build. Director and writer Steve Kloves stocks "Flesh and Bone" full of haunting symbolism and foreboding action, seeking to tell a moralistic epic in small-county Texas; what results is sometimes nonsensical and contrived. He is much more successful at creating a broad clash in contrasting the panoramic vastness of the Texan horizon with the narrowness with which Arlis views his life's path...
Nair sees herself in the very clash of identities that her films represent. But rather than affect a Third World cosmopolitanism, she grounds herself in the particulars of exile, never abandoning her sense of origin. "If you don't know where you come from," she insists, "then you're just knocking about the world, you know." She grew up in Orissa, a region in eastern India. After a brief stint at Delhi University, she came to Harvard, where she discovered "this foolish confidence that you can do anything." She also discovered her interest in film. Arriving in Cambridge, she intended...
Doerr breathes vitality into a flat-tire genre. The past few years have positively seethed with charming, Toujours Provence-like depictions of the rustic life of those quaint foreign folk. Authors tend to subscribe to the crude narrative conventions of culture clash and nation of contrasts, where faraway lands seduce the reader with their irrational, undeveloped, unhurried, unchanging, quintessentially un-Western ways. And readers, doubtless locked in urban sprawl and economic recession, have lapped up such escapist literature with alacrity...