Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part of what made the story so disturbing. The Turks used to be pretty good about waiting their turn to become involved in an international crisis: every five or six years they'd have a flare-up with the Greeks over Cyprus, and in between they'd manage to content themselves with some routine Kurd oppression...
While some people critique its content, no one debates television's power. It is the window through which we see reality, as well as the window that permits us to escape from it. This season the average American family will watch the box more than 50 hours a week...
...spite of the overall cheeriness of the production, however, it wasn't at all unidimensional. Several of Loesser's songs deserve recognition for their diverse, rather surprising content, which ran the gamut from Latin to lyrical and highlighted the differences between the two primary couples in question, i.e. Kitty and Jack versus Charley and Amy. Whereas Kitty and Jack were content with their love, a fact reflected in the unvarying sweetness and joyful lyrics of their songs, Amy and Charley were more spontaneous as people and had less equanimity as characters. At one point, Amy sang a solo expressing...
...Berg, a star of "Chicago Hope," is the latest refugee from television to land on the shores of Hollywood. This, presumably, is what gives Very Bad Things its one virtue: It does not look like television. This is partly because much of its content would be censored by all but the most `liberal' cable channels, but it's also because the director appreciates the one aspect of this medium that television completely lacks: the visceral possibilities of the big screen. While the more "artsy" montage scenes in Very Bad Things resemble nothing so much as MTV, there are some moments...
...first found out that Brad Pitt couldn't carry a movie by himself when his icy reserve barely registered in Seven Years in Tibet. Content to simply smile and run his fingers through his prized golden hair, he became cinematic wallpaper, devoid of character...