Word: directoral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps it should be of no surprise that in recent years the most successful cinematic portrayals of American life have come not from native directors but foreigners. Unlike often-jaded American filmmakers, foreign directors have a unique perspective and can be more attuned to more subtle aspects of American culture. Ang Lee has proved himself to be quite an insightful observer of American life, directing both Pushing Hands, a well-told story about a mixed Asian marriage and the cultural struggles it creates, and The Ice Storm, a subtle and powerful film about WASP culture in the '70s. Both films...
...making purchases on the Internet--a popular tool of the young--only compounds that degree of painlessness says Schor, who teaches Women's Studies 132, "Shop 'Til You Drop: Gender and Class in Consumer Society" and is the director of studies for the committee on degrees in women's studies...
Deborrah Glenn-Long, who is the director of the student financial services center at Yale University, participated in the meeting and said the committee highlighted the way different schools are affected by debt...
...Director of the Bureau of Study Counsel Charles Ducey agrees that credit card debt is not a major problem at Harvard...
...Director David Fincher has a wicked sense of humor. "A David Fincher film" deliberately takes one character on a (unnecessary?) roller-coaster and then leaves them strandedto deal with the traumatic aftermath. In Seven, Brad Pitt undergoes torture after torture and finally ends up on a desert road with his wife's head in a box. Pitt's detective had everything stacked so high against them that Fincher gleefully waits until 10 minutes before the movie ends to let everything collapse upon his hero.It's a sadistically amusing abuse of power. The Game is even better. This time...