Word: cut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mendes' bleak vision of a suburban town, where little love passes between parents and children, and neighbors are suspicious and secretive towards each other is wonderfully and subtly presented. He envisions Americans as having cut themselves off from one another, isolated with their own cars, their own garbage disposals, and own lives, totally independent and disconnected. Windows are used not as views to the outside world but as voyeuristic peeks into others' lives. Cinematographer Conrad Hall furthers Mendes' vision with brilliant use of color, making the typical suburban home a mystical and, at times, beautiful setting...
...idea of "yuppie angst" seems inherently oxymoronic. Yuppies are clean-cut, clear-headed people with successful jobs, shiny new sport utility vehicles, a weak spot for IKEA furniture, and happy families barbecuing behind white-picket fences. With such stability in their lives, what could yupsters possibly have to be all worked up about or dissatisfied with? Well, precisely that: stability. As Brad Pitt's character Tyler Durden mentions in Fight Club, thirty-somethings are the "middle children of history:" forgotten in the shadow of those who come before and after them. Yuppies are expected to make it through somehow, become...
...that some of the guys are committing the ultimate faux pas, talking to each other, across the stage, during their numbers. They make mistakes: Voices crack, chords go out of tune and Liang has to signal one of his earnest-looking friends to make more of an effort to cut off with the rest off the group, since he's breaking later than everyone else and sticking out. On a shuttle bus provided by their clients, the boys are already preparing for calypso night at the Fly Club, despite the fact that there's another gig before they...
Certainly a new bond between the athlete and the student-fan is needed. Hopefully, Harvard will once again incorporate into its culture support for hockey and all varsity athletics. Showing up for The Game doesn't cut it. We need a cadre of Crimson crazies...
...vital to the development of blood vessels that provide nourishment to tumors. Without the blood supply, the tumor eventually starves to death. This research comes on the heels of similar studies on rats, in which the injection of two proteins - possibly connected with the two genes - were shown to cut off a tumor?s blood supply...