Word: grimier
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first episodes of the movie trilogy based on Robert Ludlum's novels - The Bourne Identity (2002) and The Bourne Supremacy (2004) - picked up the reputation as a thinking man's spy series. Certainly they were darker, grimier, than the old James Bond films and their glitzy clones. (The latest Bond, Casino Royale, took some cues from the Bournes: made the hero more brutal, gave the visual a hint of grit.) But the notion of an amnesiac agent, a spy with no past, born into a web of intrigue, search for his true identity, is not automatically Oedipus Rex. Bourne...
...city bureaucrat Robert Barrone to protest cuts of service to low-income neighborhoods. Based on actual research done by Flood, who is a Crimson editor, on the squatters and drug epidemic in the 1970s and ’80s, the play gives an inside look at the grimier side of bureaucratic reform...