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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Doerr juxtaposes these escapist psychologies with the brute materialism of Bud Loomis, the developer of the community. He jumps America to avoid a hearty dose of tax arrears and irate IRS officials. Before you can say, "Guillermo es tu tio," he has married a peasant girl and started breeding bulls...
Harvard will get a small dose of Las Vegas this week when the Shops by Harvard Yard open, complete with a flourescent street sign and heated shopping strip...
McEwan fleshes out this skeletal scenario with a hearty dose of psychobabble. Freudian guilt complexes, Buddhist cycles of reincarnation and wells of spiritual self-empowerment roam the script untamed. But eclectic psychodramatic conceits are no substitute for substance...
...Izis and Cartier-Bresson. Just as Peter Greenaway calls to mind old master paintings in the composition of his scenes, Kaurismaki insinuates these great photographers of Paris, as well as the tradition of French black-and-white film. He spares no effort to achieve this effect, using a double dose of chiaroscuro lighting and urban mist...
Since acid can be cooked up by anyone with a good chemistry set and a mind bored by "Chemistry Safari," virtually all production is domestic and on a relatively small scale. It's cheap, about $2 to $5 per dose, so there is essentially no crime involved to obtain the money to trip...