Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trying not to masturbate (last season's Emmy-winning episode The Contest, in which the characters competed to be "master of your domain"). In reality, the show is more densely textured, elaborately plotted and psychologically astute than any other comedy on TV. It is, moreover, the product of two distinct but oddly congruent comic personalities: David, 46, a dour ex-stand-up comic and writer (he appeared in ABC's failed late-night show Fridays and spent one season writing for Saturday Night Live, where only one of his sketches ever aired), and Seinfeld, 39, a star who is just...
...song-and-dance people who own the riverboat theater are a bland and predictable lot, living through formula heartaches: economic ups and downs, marital tussles, the twinges of age, dreams of what might have been. By contrast, the mulatto singer Julie, who passes for white, has a much more distinct and provocative situation. She is a leading lady desired by every man. The fellow actor who marries her knows and accepts her ethnic identity -- a remarkable thing in the Deep South of the 1880s, yet never explored in the script. Her moments, superbly acted and sung by Lonette McKee, have...
...then jumps eight years ahead, after Calogero (now played by Lillo Brancato) is very involved in Sonny's mob, and Sonny has become a father figure to him. Of course their relationship causes considerable tension between Calogero and Lorenzo, but this section of the film moves onto another quite distinct subject: the escalating violence between the Black and Italian communities. Calogero now belongs to his own "social club" composed of the sameyouths who idolized Sonny and his fellow hoods.Unfortunately, Calogero's bigoted friends threatenhis interest in Jane, a beautiful young Blackwoman who just transfered to his school...
...Department of Linguistics, now slated to become a committee, is at the center of a debate over whether linguistics should be treated as a distinct field or as part of an interdisciplinary approach to education...
...years the Pontiff has been aware that contemporary liberal morality has deeply influenced the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church's 980 million members. And he will have none of it. In his 179-page Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of Truth), he argues that good is clearly distinct from evil, that morality is not situational, that right is right and wrong is really wrong, and that the church's teachings will truly set believers free. Among the evils the Pope sees at work in the world are genocide, torture and slavery. But he also includes matters of overwhelming...