Word: elements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knew kids who had half as many classes, but always seemed overworked," says Proctor. "But there was no element of narcissism in Sarah, which is rare for someone that young...
...film novice Emily Watson, Breaking the Waves also gave hints that the world's leading festival and much of world cinema were at an identity-crisis point, more than ever lost in Hollywood's long shadow. The film's Danish director, Von Trier, built his reputation on labyrinthine parables (Element of Crime, Zentropa) with much camera dazzle; but to aim for the big movie market, Von Trier set Breaking the Waves in Scotland and made it in English. Meanwhile, Bernardo Bertolucci returned to Italy for his first film at home in 15 years, yet his Stealing Beauty was also...
...presence in the area strictly to ensure the security of its Northern citizens. Hence, the use of the phrase "legitimate act of resistance" is also unjustified. The Lebanese people are not leading the fight against Israeli occupation. In fact, Hezbollah, the group leading this noble resistance, is an element foreign to Lebanon. According to CIA and U.S. Navy profiles of this terrorist organization, Hezbollah is an Iranian- and Syrian-sponsored group of fundamentalist Shia Muslims that has carried out horrific attacks on civilians of the world. Hezbollah is widely believed to be behind the 1983 truck bombing that killed...
...Freidrich Abendsland, as the ever-confident yet consistently odd William Hard, manages to keep us balancing on the razor's edge of discomfort at which the play's confusion aims. He manages this wonderfully, despite having to deliver tiresome recurring jokes about a mysterious element called tantalum...
Songs such as "War Child" and "Bosnia" both deal with the heavy-handed subject of war. Whereas the Irish group was well qualified to write of Belfast's destruction, they are out of their element when they attempt to focus on the Bosnian war. "When do the saints go marching in..." repeatedly intones "Bosnia", while a children's lullaby plays faintly in the background. It is commendable that the group should attempt to address such an important conflict but their constant allusions to the matter are disconcerting and somewhat glib considering their inexperience with the subject...