Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Antitrust is one of the most labyrinthine fields of law, relying on nuanced readings of complex statutes and analogies to dusty cases about oil refineries and railroad gauges. But the Justice Department decided to make things simple on the first day of its sweeping antitrust suit against Microsoft: it dispensed with the case law and put Bill Gates front and center. A disembodied, larger-than-life Gates hovered over Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's courtroom on a 10-ft.-tall computerized video monitor during much of government lawyer David Boies' opening statement. The thrust of Boies' argument: the fidgety, spectral...
...childhood. Now a 17-year-old senior in high school, she is asking to be declared a legal adult so she can control her own finances. According to Moceanu, her parents mismanaged her trust fund, pouring her money into a multimillion-dollar, 70,000-sq.-ft. Houston gym complex and a sportswear line. "Her relationship with her parents was only about gymnastics," says Olympic teammate Shannon Miller, who has been counseling Dominique over the past few months. "She wants to enjoy the sport because she enjoys it, not because...
Camelia Moceanu, however, portrays her daughter as a prima donna. "Everything she asked for she had," says Camelia, referring to an apartment-size bedroom, the gym complex and, last month, a Mercedes on her 17th birthday, which the teenager traded in for a convertible Mustang. Dumitru maintains that while Dominique will not have access to her trust fund until she is 35, her parents built the gym with her knowledge and blessing. Camelia admitted her husband had been strict with Dominique but insisted, "You are strict for their own good, but nothing to the point it was unbearable." Camelia also...
...mining town--loves to learn, yet is not entirely able to tear himself away from other hobbies such as drinking and hanging out with his buddies. Nyatta intelligently portrayed this inward struggle with grace and thoughtfulness and was able to show us the many sides of his complex character, some of which were not entirely positive, such as his predilection for pub life. Overall, Nyatta utterly fulfilled the depth and dimension--an well as the quiet profundity and maturity--of Morgan Evans...
Scenes in the style of Mr. King, normally complex and intriguing, are here sickening. Certainly the convention that spares cute animals in Hollywood movies, normally annoying, is here unforgivable: a movie that seems to pride itself on confronting its audience with the fact of the Holocaust nonetheless stops short of this triviality, which makes one consider how real the Holocaust is for this movie, and so for its audience. The ethics of making Dussander the interesting character and his strident accusers the bland and vapid ones are, of course, also questionable. Perhaps if he were a man at once horrified...