Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most part, Americans take to the streets only to express their political views when they believe the electoral system isn't responding to their concerns. And it's hardly surprising that those on the streets in Seattle may doubt the effectiveness of taking up their grievances at the polls in an electoral system totally beholden to the millions of dollars of corporate "soft money" that greases the wheels of both parties. Long after the ink has dried on the last signature of the last trade deal in Seattle, the aftershocks of the battle for its streets may reverberate in American...
Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny's soundtrack to A Map of the World, the upcoming film based on Jane Hamilton's book, falls somewhere in between. Certainly no innovation, but surely no tragedy, Metheny's compositions are no doubt appropriate. The main framework of the album is a variation on a theme, punctuated by less topical instrumentations, which include very literal motifs. An apt analogy would be to say that the artist has ceded to the architect. That is to say, Metheny has selflessly concealed his artistic biases to create a non-intrusive score for a film and not a masterpiece...
...method lies in injecting one's own opinion into the subject's work, often resulting in a rather one-sided view of the subject. Of course, an incomplete portrayal of a subject can easily be construed as an unfair one, and it is this implicit danger that no doubt often encourages the reader hungry for intrigue or second-hand gossip to purchase a biography. Such is potentially the case in Nicholas Fox Weber's Balthus...
...that it's the dream job. It really is. There's no negative to it. It's not a job; it's all fun. It's the dream gig, no doubt about...
...policy community is putting this enormous challenge on teachers, that is, educating all students to high standards, and at the same time expressing doubt about the competency of teachers," said Paul S. Reville, a lecturer at Harvard's Graduate School of Education...