Word: dogmas
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...drink and do a spit-take if told that there's gelatin in their soup--a semivegetarian is no vegetarian at all. A phrase like pesco-pollo-vegetarian, to them, is an oxymoron, like "lapsed Catholic" or "semivirgin." Vegetarian Times, the bible of this particular congregation, lays down the dogma: "For many people who are working to become vegetarians, chicken and fish may be transitional foods, but they are not vegetarian foods ... the word 'vegetarian' means someone who eats no meat, fish or chicken...
...become a matter of institutional dogma at Harvard that a year off before college is a Good Thing...
...lipstick, gold earrings and faux leopard skin high heels. "Women will discard the burka only gradually as the security improves," she says, as she waits with friends for the bus home after work. "The important difference now is that we have a choice. Nothing's forcing us." Not Taliban dogma, or Western expectations...
...track “Surrending,” and is thoughtfully contemplative on the gypsy-tinged “Utopia.” She no longer relies on the disillusionment of a leftover grunge-bittered generation. She is ready and willing to take responsibility for her actions. While in Dogma she was cast as God, in Under Rug Swept, she plays man: “I have been blamed / And I have repented / I’m working my way toward our union mended” on “A Man.” On one level, she addresses...
...lovely about Italian for Beginners is not the way things work out for everyone but that the route to those consummations is so persuasive, with the cast as unactorish as any you've ever seen in a movie. And writer-director Lone Scherfig abides by the stern confines of "Dogma 95," the filmmaking theory promulgated by a group of Danish directors in 1995 that forbids, among other things, musical scores, artificial light and settings, even sound looping. Who knew that charm could survive--let alone prosper--under those strictures...