Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worry, the visceral disgust you feel at the artificiality of some of your classmates is a commonly shared emotion. Nothing is more repulsive than letting the concept of connections dominate your life here, and since people can sense when you're being artificial and when you're being sincerely friendly, that approach backfires more often than...
...busted when a jewel heist goes awry, Miles Logan hides the loot--a humongous diamond--in a construction site. Released from jail two years later, he discovers the finished building is now a police station. To recover the gem, he impersonates a cop. It's not a bad concept, and Martin Lawrence is appealing as Logan, who, naturally, has a gift for apprehending burglars. Unfortunately, the writers have no gift for comic writing, so the star is mostly reduced to pulling faces, yelling obscenities and, when all else fails, pointless juking and jiving as he waits for the funny line...
...Myers has a knack for improvisation--and for taking a joke to its breaking point ("www.sh.com," "zip it," etc.). But some gags flopped miserably--Fat Bastard, most notably, was not only tired, but just flat-out gross. There's the feeling--so prevalent among sequels--that the Austin Powers concept has been milked to the bone. Parodies have a short shelf-life--they only last until new material arrives. And, of course, the "spy" genre isn't very trendy anymore. If the makers decide to spawn more sequels, I have no doubt that Austin Powers will stray further and further...
...Folkman has his approaches to this problem; other research groups and companies have other approaches," he said. "But the point is that the concept of inhibition of angiogenesis is a fundamentally very important one, both because it seems to me very likely that it will work, at least in some...
...according to Sen, there are ethical imperatives that exist prior to any state, and it is from these imperatives that the concept of human rights draws its strength...