Word: closing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...draft climate-change bill released in late March by Democratic Congressmen Henry Waxman and Edward Markey, which aims to cut U.S. carbon emissions 20% below 2005 levels by 2020. That goal is significantly less ambitious than what the E.U. has pledged, but getting that bill - or anything close to it - through Congress, especially by the Copenhagen summit, will be a legislative headache...
...Love,” The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven,” and The Outfield’s “Your Love.” The wistful pop of these years accompanies Mottola’s use of frequent pans and circling close-ups. The songs speak to carefree satisfaction as much as they hint to nostalgic sadness in the face of fading youth.Just as the promises of adolescence gradually wither, the movie loses steam as it recedes into melodrama. When James applies to work at Adventureland, he asks...
...together for Clemson during the 2006-07 basketball season, where Wade served as the director of men’s basketball operations and Smith was an assistant coach and the recruiting coordinator for the Tigers under head coach Oliver Purnell.“Coach Smart and I are very close friends,” Wade said. “It would have taken a lot for me to leave Harvard, because I loved Harvard and I loved what we were building.”Wade’s first class of recruits helped the Crimson improve from eight wins last...
...through their ideas, none of these thinkers are about to make a philosophical break-through. Ronell tells a helpful anecdote about Heidegger’s abandonment of what he believed to be institutionalized philosophy in favor of simply thinking. Indeed, Taylor’s film presents nothing like a close reading of “Being and Time,” but it does rouse its viewers to consider various takes on what it might mean to be alive today.Walking down 5th Avenue in New York City, Princeton’s Peter Singer asks, “Can we make...
...politics prize inclusivity; Butler’s music has attracted the masses, but there’s a curious isolationism in not wanting to live in America no more.The pretensions of “Miroir Noir” do their best to keep populism at bay. Close-ups on a shaking door knob, bird’s-eye-views of street-level passersby, overblown anonymous calls (“I believe in myself, I believe in the cause, and I believe in the effect. I do believe.”)—they all make Morisset?...