Word: hearse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today, with the Japanese economy suffering through a recession, one hears relatively little about the Japanese miracle. Indeed, members of the mainstream media are now falling over one another in their haste to declare that Japan's success was never without its costs.
With the technology developed in the seventies, many film-makers are able to be "independent" in this sense. McElwee is unique because, unlike documentary filmmakers who concentrate on external phenomena, McElwee's main subject is himself. He conveys his own thoughts and feelings (voiced over), and the reactions of his...
But Ira's way -- and Roth's as well -- takes the reader through a pretty grim, no-frills narrative. The order is relentlessly chronological. Ira, devastated by the loss of his East Side haunts and friends and upset by the anti-Semitic taunts he hears in heterogeneous Harlem, ages predictably...
Diane Stillman is watching a very large dresser with attached mirror hurtle toward her across her bedroom. Having lived in Los Angeles all her life, the 43-year-old paralegal knows she is in an earthquake. And she herself isn't hurt. What worries her is her mother, 83 and...
In fact, though, poor Americans (who are disproportionately black) have already gotten a great deal from Clinton. The Administration's fivefold expansion in the earned-income tax credit, for example, guarantees that no family headed by a full-time worker will any longer live in poverty. But Jackson sees none...