Word: conduite
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Those two scenes sparkle on their own, but together the vignettes create an effective conduit for the film’s major themes. Though the cause of civilization’s end remains unknown, there is some implication that it is manmade. Be it nuclear or environmental, “The Road” forces us to contemplate our end, brought about by our own hands. And it demands, ever so subtly, that we reassess our priorities and protect our planet from ourselves...
...Iran's human-rights violations have not gone unreported. In the past few years, the rise of muckraking independent news outlets and news websites has emerged to spread the word on official abuses. Iran has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s, when Ebadi functioned as almost the sole conduit for news of abuses. In that era, families of abuse victims often went to Ebadi first. She brought prominence to their cases by taking them to trial and speaking to journalists who in turn covered the proceedings. If the world learned about the cases of rape and extrajudicial killings that made...
...Based on Robert Kaplow's young adult novel of the same name, the story blends fictional characters with real ones. Efron plays a fictional one: 17-year-old Richard Samuels, a high school student who worships Noel Coward and who acts as our main conduit into Welles' world. Welles plucks Richard off the street and gives him a small but crucial part in his version of Julius Caesar, which truly was performed, to great success - in modern dress with a fascist theme - at New York's Mercury Theater that fall...
...public managers” and political appointees in former New York Times Public Editor and Visiting Lecturer Daniel Okrent’s “Writing and Reporting on Politics and Policy” class to take the press seriously and use media as a positive conduit between government and the people...
...Damned United,” the latest collaboration between screenwriter Peter Morgan and actor Michael Sheen, were deemed merely a good sports movie. This is not a genre film. Football—soccer in this country—is not the subject matter so much as a conduit to the film’s study of ego and relationships. Previous collaborators on “Frost/Nixon” (in which Sheen played television presenter David Frost) and “The Special Relationship,” “The Deal...