Word: heartlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They are joined by a motley crew of transvestites, transsexuals, presidential candidates (George Bush and "Some Tired Old Liberal"), heartless right to lifers, leather clad feminists and a bevy of other ingratiating characters (35 in totem), all played by a very versatile 12 member ensemble...
...movie makes knowing fun of all sorts of Hollywood types, but the satire never seems heartless. "Everything that's in there that's mean is about me," Altman says. "I mean, I talk like those guys. I get on the phone and I make those pitches the same way. I cannot tell you how many times I've said ((about a proposed film)), 'Well, it's kind of like Nashville, it's a Nashville kind of structure.' The film does not escape its own satire. We didn't let anybody off the hook...
...real problems with the film lie elsewhere: in the chilly, self-conscious sleekness of its production design, in the heartless and relentless thrill seeking of Paul Verhoeven's direction, in the too intricate, not entirely persuasive plotting required to create an alternate suspect, a police psychiatrist (Jeanne Tripplehorn) who truly loves Douglas. Finally, the film breaks faith with the most inviolable convention of the whodunit -- refusing to state firmly which of the two women dunit (notwithstanding gay activists' confident naming of one of them, in a publicity campaign aimed at undermining the movie). This reflects its fundamental flaw of arrogance...
...repatriated refugees will, of course, suffer the most dire consequences of this heartless policy. If the administration can trust the testimony of one self-interested Kuwaiti teenager, then shouldn't they believe the words of dozens of "double-backers" and the desperate actions of thousands of other Haitian refugees...
...talk is cheap. Desperate times call for desperate solutions. Harvard needs to drastically rethink its fiscal policies, to reconceptualize solvency in a heartless age of global capitalism. With that in mind, we offer eight ideas for Harvard to raise money...