Word: fact
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...fact, “Parenthood” would have premiered on the same night as “Modern Family”—September 23 of last year—if actress Maura Tierney’s breast cancer diagnosis hadn’t delayed its debut until March 2. Ed O’Neill and Craig T. Nelson, the shows’ respective patriarchs, even vaguely resemble one another. However, by straining to be emotionally hard-hitting, “Parenthood” falls flat...
...fact, every facet of this story touches a nerve. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” dabbles with the horrors of mental instability, broken families, rape, religious fanaticism, and racism. And while the tale is fictional, it attempts to shed light on societal issues in Sweden that are often overlooked: violence against women, capitalist corruption, and anti-Semitism...
...scholarly interests have shifted toward legitimizing the study of sexuality and pornography, explicit literature has grown increasingly accepted in research library collections. In fact, Hazen said, the difficult question is more frequently where to store material, not whether to accept it in the first place. Pornography is typically housed in closed circulation areas—not for moral concerns, but because, in Hazen’s experience, “it disappears almost as fast as you put it on the shelf.” When the books and magazines themselves aren’t stolen, explicit images are often...
Just as the camera reveals that Kirk is sitting on a cheap lawn-chair and not a log or a bench, a plane roars overhead, bringing home the point that this movie is not afraid of trading in subtlety for loud, obvious humor. In fact, the opening scene couldn’t fit the film itself more perfectly. Like Kirk’s billboard, the film sets audiences up for a promising scene, then pulls back to reveal the seams...
...does, by dancing around with ever more frenetic, outlandish stretches of virtuosity, the vocal equivalent of Dr. Seuss-like whimsy. She’s a delight just to watch, and even someone who never listens to classical vocal music couldn’t help but be amazed by the fact that a single human being can produce these sounds...