Word: effect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...distributor, Lolita is, in the end, surprisingly tame. Overwhelming us with a cascade of lovely images, Lolita succeeds in being tragically moving despite the unsavory plot. Indeed, the reason why Lyne's film works is that it focuses upon the potential of film to beautify even the grotesque. The effect is a little artificial, a spectacle designed to seduce the viewer into turning away from the moral problem of the film. In a time when films often try to say something about life, here is a film about the power of film. Irene Hahn...
...unhealthy psychological environment isperpetuated by sanctions and has an effect onpolitical orientation," Halliday said...
...very few happen to hold these views or because those who do have been made to feel that they are not free to express those views. In The Shadow University, their new book about civil liberties on America's university campuses, Alan Charles Kors and Harvey Silverglate examine the effects of campus speech codes--which some universities have adopted in the name of protecting designated groups. They conclude that these policies have had a stifling effect on free expression. As a private institution, Harvard College has greater legal ability to regulate speech and expression than do public universities...
While there were several disappointments on Tuesday, including the election of Jesse "the Body" Ventura as governor of Minnesota and the success of an anti-affirmative action referendum in Washington state, on the whole, these midterm elections have had a cleansing effect on American politics...
Requiring a cultural background as part of the minimal background introduces a cultural bias. Granted, this cultural bias is merely a perverse effect of an otherwise well-intended effort to make problems easier to understand, and this is not to say that professors shouldn't continue these efforts...