Word: earths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that talk revolves around the treaty. Those just happen to be the terms you need to describe the mood between Congress and the President, a climate so poisoned by the impeachment fight that as Bill Clinton moves toward his final year in office, he doesn't only have scorched earth behind him. He has it in front...
...Height accounted for merely part of his gianthood. I once went down to courtside at halftime to get a closer look at him. His hands were the size of easy chairs, his head, nose, eyes, everything colossal. And he was standing around with some of the biggest men on Earth...
Mehta, an Indian-born Canadian director, has yet again challenged India's political conservatives. Unlike Fire, which directly criticizes India's societal hypocrisy, Earth shifts a fair amount of the blame onto the ignorance of the paternalistic British imperialists, who ended up causing one of the 20th century's bloodiest ethnic wars in their attempt to control the fate of the Indian people and their government. Before the partition takes place, Lenny, despite being forced by polio to wear a leg brace, enjoys a happy childhood playing under the care of her nanny Shanta (Nandita Das). Shanta is a beautiful...
...Some critics have compared Earth unfavorably to Mehta's Fire, claiming that Earth is no more than a heavy-handed sermon and history lesson. While Fire may be a more brilliantly produced film, dismissing Earth as irrelevant would be an egregious error. A moving depiction of nationalism gone horribly wrong, Earth is richly filmed and extremely well-acted, a film worth seeing by anyone who enjoys a well-written, heart-wrenchingly beautiful story of lost innocence and passionate love destroyed by ignorance and fear. The recent confrontation between India and Pakistan involving nuclear weapons shows the continuing relevance...
...20th century that have defined a generation. In the '40s, Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart's romance captured the minds of a war-torn society, and in the '70s, Star Wars brought fairy tales to the baby boomers. Films in the '90s, however, largely haven't been as earth-shattering. But that's all about to change, with a fresh new film boasting exciting young talent. Or at least, that's what the maker's of Body Shots would have you believe. It claims, in kinship to movies such as The Breakfast Club that "There are movies that define every...