Word: falle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem, unfortunately, is that Fincher completely underestimates Edward Norton as an actor. If Fight Club is to be a successful satire, the audience can't fall in love with Norton's narrator. We shouldn't see him as the righteous crusader, the man who can do no wrong. Because when we take every punch Norton takes, we lose our sense of detachment. We lose that ironic distance--the distance that makes a movie like American Beauty such a compelling psychological portrait. There's no seeing the forest from the trees here because of Norton's intensity and ability to elicit...
Along with the shift in emphasis, the Hasty Pudding Club has also decided to push back its fall punch...
...Kansas Board of Education which voted to include creationism in school curriculum is a fine example of this phenomenon. Five out of the ten members elected to the Board are conservative Christians elected in the fall of 1998. They were elected right under the nose of moderate Republicans preoccupied with the high-profile Republican gubernatorial primary which pitted a former Kansas Christian Coalition head against moderate Bill Graves. By moving the debate away from the abortion clinic doors (or rather, being banished from them by the FACE act) they have colored themselves as innocuous citizens merely concerned for the welfare...
...Harvard men's tennis team wants is to come home and play. Luckily for it, this weekend is the Harvard Fall Invitational...
Although an oversight committee report presented last fall pronounced the department "outstanding at all levels," it went on to raise questions about the adequacy of mentoring and promotion of junior faculty members in the department...