Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Breillat is no stranger to controversy. At age 17, she began by authoring a banned novel and proceeded to make several films exploring sex. She wrote Romance intending to challenge common conventions of feminine desire. The abundant analyzing is obvious--a clear mark of a "woman's" movie. We hear all of Marie's thoughts in voice-overs la Kevin in "The Wonder Years." Of course, the issues at stake are more perverse. "They say a man who screws a woman honors her," we hear after Paul rebuffs her advances. Later, she observes, "Women are the victims men need...
...Premise: The story of a captain's daughter and a common sailor who fall in love on the HMS Pinafore, this was the first smash hit for Gilbert and Sullivan and still remains one of the three most popular pieces in their repertoire today...
...Barker Center has created "an attractive common space where we can all be situated in proximity to each other as opposed to our former condition of being scattered around several somewhat cramped buildings...
...cost of $65 million, the University renovated first-year dorms, beginning the project in 1992. The Wigglesworth music practice room and several common rooms were refurbished among other projects. In 1997, the University constructed Annenberg Hall and Loker Commons with donations from Walter Annenberg and Katherine B. Loker...
...donors gathered in New York for Wednesday's capital campaign update had three things in common--money, white hair and neck ties...