Word: displays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the drama takes some time to get moving, the acting is moving. Rogers is not able to display the quiet vitality that the other characters had found within themselves. He tries and seems to think he is doing a good job, but August's character needed a faster pulse. Maples, on the other hand, over-played her childish enthusiasm and bubbliness, almost to the point of annoyance. Her acting simply did not fit in with that of the other characters...
...since art and politics are both but facets on the same cultural jewel. 1990s-style art finds its most visible example in the overexposed Pulp Fiction. This highly successful film is appropriate here not just because of its thematic moral nihilism, but even more importantly for its subtle display of the bankruptcy of our era. It is simply this: Pulp Fiction, entertaining as it is, contains very little that is actually new. In fact, one of the most important reasons that the movie is considered so avant-garde is because it embraces "borrowing" from previous films in such an overt...
...display windows of the J. Press clothing store on the corner of Dunster St. and Mt. Auburn St. was broken Sunday, according to a store employee...
...Jesse Jackson, who joined the march only after a deal was struck to broaden its organizational base and make it more ecumenical, had a very powerful vision of the day. "What you saw was a great display of pain, dignity and discipline," he says. "I addressed the march based upon need. In a society, we simply cannot be guilty or innocent by association. We must have the right of free association. To ignore Jewish sensibilities would be a mistake, but to have stayed away would also have been a mistake...
...sure, the kind of moral contortionism on display in West's piece is hardly the exclusive province of the Left. In a recent article in Commentary, Norman Podhoretz argued that Pat Robertson's vocal support for the State of Israel more than compensates for the overt anti-semitism that is to be found in Robertson's books...