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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure, this too adjusted to modern sensibilities last year when it took a national plebiscite on whether the bathing-suit competition should be continued. (Regis Philbin was the host and arbiter; one assumes that Justice Scalia was unavailable.) No matter; the bathing suits stayed, and the pageant remains a context for the exhibition of perfection--that is, if one's view of perfection includes a woman who, upon one's return home, is pounding the piano and belting out an aria from Carmen at the top of her wonderful lungs...
...outlined two distressing trends in the cultural context of children: the complete privatization of middleclass childhood and the problem of parents who proclaim that they are the only role models for their children, preventing other adults from becoming role models...
...less ambitious context this combination of inventive slackness and intellectual slipperiness would not much matter. We could simply relax and enjoy a rattling good yarn--Braveheart without the kilts, Viva Zapata! without the sombreros--by a director who is shot for shot and scene for scene a masterly craftsman. But Neil Jordan, who is of course Irish, claims this is "an examination of conscience." He is also volubly aware that the culture of violence that has haunted his country's history was embodied by Collins and his cohorts. Jordan therefore owes to the present, as well as to the past...
...Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, a well-rounded, varied exhibition presents Stieglitz's accomplishments in various modes, artistic and professional, with the added treat of works by several key contemporaries (not the least of whom is O'Keeffe herself). The appreciation of Stieglitz and his photography in the context of his time, without excessive social commentary, lends an instant appeal to the presentation...
...says he remains confident that if the issue is properly put into the context of the need for diversity in education and the actual mechanics of college admissions, affirmative action will prevail...