Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Clinton doesn't mind taking on the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, but the last thing he needs just now is to open a second front against the military-industrial complex. And that is what he was facing after the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a closed-door meeting with him, threatened to go over his head to Congress to get a bigger budget. So, clever politician that he is, Clinton last week signaled his support for an increase in military spending of as much as $15 billion, or 5%, a year...
...thousand years ago in the central Indian town of Khajuraho, the monarchs of the Chandella dynasty commissioned a vast temple complex, consecrated to the great triumvirate of Hinduism: Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver and Shiva the destroyer. What makes the complex unique is that among the thousands of exquisitely carved images are scores of sculptures portraying gods, humans and animals in uninhibited sexual embrace. Once lost beneath dense jungle, the site has emerged in recent years as a popular attraction. "What better way to end the millennium," suggests Betty Bohnenblust, a local hotelier, "than to relive its beginning...
...strongest element this production had working for it, ultimately, was the simple--and marvelously complex--power of the text itself. This production did succeed in bringing much of its power out rather beautifully. It looks as if the Hyperion's experiment was successful: they brought one of the most difficult and rewarding plays in history to a large student audience, and they succeeded in demonstrating that Sanders really is (except for those darn acoustics) suitable for Shakespeare. If the production, as Norton wrote of the actor who played Hamlet in '56 (the amusingly named Colgate Salsbury '57), had certain marked...
...narrative unfolds in flashback, as Ellen is being questioned by a district attorney about the possibility that she assisted in her cancer-stricken mother's death. Through her answers to the attorney's questions and the episodes which she recounts, we gradually begin to get a sense of the complex personality and wealth of insecurities that Ellen harbors...
...True Thing is such an emotionally complex film that it literally wears its audience down. In the hands of director Carl Franklin (One False Move, Devil in a Blue Dress), the movie achieves rich layers and dramatic tension solely because of character depth. Three separate stories--the connection between Kate and George, the evolving rapport of Kate and Ellen, the difficult relationship of Ellen and her father--weave together to create an endless array of emotional fireworks. Most impressively, Franklin's film transcends its simple narrative and makes the audience completely invest its emotions in the question of who exactly...