Word: directed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are dumb movies, and then there are dumb movies. Making slapstick, the lowest form of humor, successful requires enormous skill and talent. Rowan Atkinson's character, Mr. Bean, whose inspired idiocy traces a direct descent from Charlie Chaplin, infuses new intelligence into unintelligent comedy. It's really too bad that such a well-wrought dumb character finds himself in such a stock dumb movie...
...characters and new situations in order to understand what is happening in the novel. In order to provide this information, Sharpe lapses from time to time into somewhat dry expository sections, which, while maintaining the oddity of the story through the description of strange situations, lack activity and direct character involvement...
Dillon Professor of International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez, who will direct the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, said in a press release that the gift will allow for a "huge advance" in the center's ability to disseminate "research pertinent to the tasks that citizens and decision-makers face everywhere...
Jones has shown his flagrant disregard for the league and its rules. He signed huge contracts with Pepsi and Nike in direct violation of league policy...
...bank records reviewed by TIME show that four days after a $2 million G.O.P. infusion, Americans for Tax Reform paid $280,000 to buy time for the anti-Torricelli ad, an expense the group could not cover otherwise. An additional $600,000 was paid out for phone banks and direct mail less than two hours after the same amount came in from the R.N.C...