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True Lies. At its center is a sequence in which Jamie Lee Curtis, playing Arnold Schwarzenegger's wife, is abducted, locked up in a dank cell and subjected to grievous and extensive mental torture by her temporarily estranged husband...
...Barry Dank, a sociologist at California State University at Long Beach who argues that such prohibitions "infantilize" students, has formed a loosely knit group of about 100 professors and students called Consenting Academics for Sexual Equity. He believes the spread of campus rules on romance will leave professors less accessible to students. "It's creating a paranoia that is really affecting whatever is left of an academic community," he says...
...biggest surprise was the Academy's passing over the acclaimed "Hoop Dreams" for best documentary feature, a move that "had most people's jaws dropping" and cemented a trend in which prominent commercial documentaries have been overlooked. Also unexpected, Ressner says, were the best picture nod for "Shawshank," a "dank prison film with a unwieldy title," and Woody Allen's best director nomination for "Bullets Over Broadway." Says Ressner: "It seems as though it's a 'Welcome back Woody, all is forgiven' vote...
...very smart, very pretty girlfriend (Tyra Banks), who is coolly intent on using the system to her advantage; a young white woman (Kristy Swanson), victimized by date rape, tempted by lesbianism, ultimately redeemed and betrayed by her idealistic political activism; a socially maladroit loner (Michael Rapaport), who finds a dank spiritual home with the local neo- Nazis. The rapper Ice Cube is on hand as a perpetual graduate student and guru to the black activists. Laurence Fishburne represents adult authority as an arrogant, challenging and ultimately wise and sympathetic political-science professor...
...Fine," the viewer thinks, "Another day in the life of multi-cultural America. Gee, we sure are diverse." But Cultures and Contexts is not a tired attempt to trot out all that is 'multi-cultural' from the dank basements of Mother Harvard, it is a thoughtful, if somewhat cramped, exploration of the problems that arise when adopting this diversity. "Many art museums now rush to embrace contextualization without recognizing or acknowledging that definitions of contexts themselves can be called into question," Burgard notes in the excellent gallery guide accompanying the exhibition...