Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pleasantville charms; on the visual level, it dazzles. Half comedy, half fable, it flips the premise of The Truman Show, presenting, instead of a man trapped in a TV world he thinks is real but discovers to be a colossal fake, a TV world made up of potential Trumans who need an outsider to help transform the fake into reality. What distinguishes Pleasantville, however, is the device used to show the transformation: the slow-ripple change from black-and-white film to color. It's one of the most ingenious visual devices ever conceived for a mainstream movie, and certainly...
Illegal immigration was one route that Jews took to Israel, while others worked on a diplomatic level...
...deeper level, path-dependency affects the way we think about everything. Think, for example, of a mistake you've made or bad experience you've had. As a child, you may have been trained to think of your bad experiences or mistakes as "learning experiences." That way, you don't have to conceive of those experiences as outright losses. But consider for a moment: have you ever actually learned anything from a "learning experience"? Or, more precisely, have you ever actually avoided doing the same thing twice because you "learned" from your mistake? People tend to make the same mistakes...
...University "engaged comment earlier, at the formative level of planning, [but] people read [each idea] as though it was already done," says Kathy A. Spiegelman, associate vice president of planning and real estate...
...offer a better context. And the combination of Gates's dismissive attitude and faulty memory won't go down well with the judge either, says Cohen: "You need to be deft in explaining why you don't remember something. I'm not sure his performance rises to that level." Microsoft may be earning stockholders a fat 62 cents per share -? but if antitrust law kicks in, even the market will notice...