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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only has expensive wines in his home is because he worked very hard his whole life so that he doesn't have to drink cheap wine. Therefore the audience sees through the upper-bourgeois crust that hides Bronchant's low upbringing just as Pignon's idiocy never obscures his human qualities...

Author: By Marcelline Block, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: French Farce Has Cruel Pretensions | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

...that theme is never realized. The problem is that Kubrick's vision of sexuality needs character revelations--a dramatic device which he has always detested. Kubrick is only interested in the generic character, the allegory which reveals human nature rather than idiosyncrasy...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kubrick Shuts One Eye | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

Just because a city native is less likely to tack on meaningless pleasantries to his or her comments doesn't mean that he or she is being mean. Underneath that gruff, hurried exterior New Yorkers are human beings too, with the same compassion and caring that mid-Westerners have. But strangers will not get a "hello, how are you?" from us--why should they? Do we know? Do we honestly care how they're feeling? No, of course not and such superficial behavior is beneath New Yorkers...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, | Title: Leave the Pleasantries in Beantown | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

Just because a city native is less likely to tack on meaningless pleasantries to his or her comments doesn't mean that he or she is being mean. Underneath that gruff, hurried exterior New Yorkers are human beings too, with the same compassion and caring that mid-Westerners have. But strangers will not get a "hello, how are you?" from us--why should they? Do we know? Do we honestly care how they're felling? No, of course not and such superficial behavior is beneath New Yorkers...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, | Title: POSTCARD FROM NEW YORK | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

...group?s New York-based founder, Li Hongzhi. The Communist party presents itself as the country?s supreme moral authority, and isn?t about to tolerate competition ?- particularly from a group whose leader believes computers, airplanes and other symptoms of modernity were introduced by aliens seeking to enslave the human spirit. Which is a problem for Beijing, since those attracted by Li?s message are hardly likely to be impressed by the communists? denunciation of his teachings as "false science." Science, according Master Li, is a tool of the aliens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alarmed, Beijing Bans a Massive Religious Sect | 7/21/1999 | See Source »

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