Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what wit the characters do have. With the exception of Bryan W. Leach '00 as the staunchly paranoid Yossariar everyone in the cast exhudes two distinct talents: the ability to play a number of extremely different characters, and the ability to make each of them as delightfully absurd as possible. The script itself a tight-laced tango of double entendred and hysterically ironic scenarios, could only be mastered by a group of actor with impeccable comic timing and greaversatility. Particularly notable are Jame A. Carmichael '01 as the dry Lt. Co-Korn; Michael P. Davidson '00 as the stereotypical Italian...
This wouldn't be a problem if Mad City weren't such a character-driven piece. Echoing Billy Wilder's 1952 Ace In The Hole, the film aligns two distinct personalities--the hardened reporter and the simple, down-on-his-luck everyman--and pits them both against the senseless juggernaut of popular culture. "This movie is about people," Gavras says, and the people who star in it are indeed its finest assets. Dustin Hoffman plays Max Brackett, a hotshot national news reporter who has been demoted to a backwater affiliate station in northern California after a mysterious incident involving celebrity...
...recent years, the distinct art forms of "poetry slamming" and "spoken-word" have moved out of coffee houses and into the mainstream, heralding a convergence of poetry with performance. Unfortunately, those who explore poetry through visual media always run the risk of yielding a result at odds with the poem's intended message; or, even worse, one that reflects badly on the poem itself. A casual viewing of the films exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts October 16 program, "Poetry on Film and in Performance," indicated that a fine line still exists in the video arts world between visualizing...
...Uche say both of their parents encouraged them to pursue their own creative urges, whether violin or science experiments. The Blackstocks' only children, both twins stressed in a recent interview that their parents "made [them] definitely feel like distinct individuals...
...person, an unusual perspective for a memoir. Unfortunately, this stylistic gimmick doesn't prove as unsettling or provocative as it promises. Boyhood's narrator, unlike those of other third-person memoirs (such as the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, Class of 1898), never develops a personality distinct from Coetzee's. The third-person voice just allows Coetzee to avoid intimacy with the reader, to talk around himself without adopting a confessional tone...