Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Triumph of the Will" an example of great art? Which is more important, the film's status as a technical masterpiece, or its content, which seems to praise one of history's most evil ideologies? These are the difficult questions that Muller leaves the viewer to consider...
...turned the task of creating a new "core" curriculum over to then-Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovaky. But Rosovsky--seeking to avoid controversy in deciding what subjects should be included in the new program--developed a proposal without specifics, one that pinpointed ways of thinking rather than content, form rather than substance...
...makes them not have to deal with the issue at all. They are content to sit back and be all-male," she said. "They were waiting to see what...
...meet in Harvard buildings, and we don't claim to be the Harvard chapter," she said. "We're content to work within the rules...
There may be something redemptive in this story -- a triumph of the tormented human spirit and all that -- but neither Darabont nor the actors overplay the point. They are content to update the old prison genre deftly and unpretentiously. It always did work when it was done well, and it still does; and if using Redemption in the title instead of the more accurate Revenge helps to bring in the upwardly mobile, who cares? James Cagney would have felt right at home in Shawshank...