Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Crimson: What initially attracted you to the period of summer of '69? Tony Goldwyn: I thought it was a brilliant metaphor for what happens [in the story]. What attracted me to the story was the idea of someone realizing that their life is somehow limited. It's like waking up one morning and saying, is this the life I dreamt I would have? I think it's a moment everyone goes through. And that's exactly what was happening with the country at that time. America decided after World War II that this is the way life is, this...
...give Joffe the benefit of the doubt: enough points to a very bitter, saddening satire behind the entertainment, particularly the film's wrap-up, which takes the idea of a know-it-all detective to one logical conclusion. A persistent dialogue between camera movements and angles also suggests more (and I'm not just talking about how every other scene starts with Arquette's legs and moves up). And Mulrooney's conflicted character gives us an occasional flash of honest hope: a P.R. exec in his brother's firm, he cannot stop wisecracking about the hypocrisy and yet, weak, himself...
...guitar guru, attributes it to their insularity, "We didn't really give a shit about Brit pop or whatever, any trends that were going on. It was just music we wanted to hear, really." But, lest we assume each member of the quintet approaches their music with the same idea, Ben reminds us that they each bring unique musical tastes to the table. Each plays what he individually hears in the music, be it a riff, slide, melody or funky bass line. This synergy of sound leaves Gomez undefinable, in a genre of their...
...idea that the layout is "stupid" for living arrangements may be true, but it is ideal for throwing parties...
...magazine did for me is confirm my (seemingly common-sense) belief that regular, real people are far more interesting than stars. And not so long ago, you, Jane, as revealed through Sassy, held this view too. Part of the joy of your old magazine was that it applauded the idea that movie stars are a little more than pretty faces and talking heads, and that real people doing real things were a lot more worthy of our attentions. Isn't the fact that we get excited when a star says something coherent an example of the exception that proves...