Word: drives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...honors her," we hear after Paul rebuffs her advances. Later, she observes, "Women are the victims men need for atonement" and "Love is dumb--it's just a power trip." Perhaps Breillat wanted to instill some intellectual momentum by exposing us to Marie's inner musings. The voiceovers awkwardly drive the slow, slow scenes. Ducey's throaty voice (amplified by French gutturals) can be irritating as she incessantly harps about her appetite for sensual stimulation. Sometimes she should just shut up and let the rest of us absorb the atmosphere...
...difficult to view Breillat's work as pornographic, because it thinks too much and projects an entertainingly cynical attitude towards the act, In many ways this looks like one of those hazy foreign films with lots of talk and no plot. But provocative fantasies and bitter narration drive out all the mundane, leaving not hot sex, but one weird, cold movie. Brrr...
...PREMISE: Teenaged Tillie lives at home, where her dysfunctional sister, mother and "Nanny" drive her to escape into a scientific world of gamma rays and cloud chambers. The play has five leading female roles and gives us a candid and amusing picture of how a young girl survives this modern world of borderline insanity and paranoia...
...heart of the mission to improve teaching in FAS lies the drive to endow 40 new professorships. Although this goal has proved one of the most difficult for the University to meet, more than half of the positions have been paid for by alumni, at a cost of about $2.5 million each...
...million gift to Harvard by John L. Loeb '24 in 1995 was by far the largest the University received in what was itself the largest fundraising drive in Harvard history. It was, in fact, the largest gift to higher education ever made by a living donor...