Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relevancy of his films to everyday life is undoubtedly what causes the censors to choke. Brutal observations of dysfunctional personal and family life in modern China do not fit into the State's project of socialist utopia. By making films that force the Chinese to look into amirror of their own experiences, he seeks to "provoke Chinese people's thinking about their real lives and stir their memories of what has happened in the past." Yet even Zhang seems wary of his own medicine: he has not let his family see his films because watching them "invokes too much pain...
...majority manage to balance catchiness with noise. During the middle of the hour-long set, Janet Weiss took a brief but very impressive spell as lead vocalist on "Two By Two." Just in case anyone was feeling optimistic after Janet's airy vocals, Coomes returned with "California," singing "Life is dull/Life is gray/At its best it's just ok/But I'm happy to report/Life is also short." The kids in the front row bounced along, reveling in Coomes' despair...
...performing the same songs he was then. Sure, the band's lousy and thrusts every single great song they perform through a meat grinder which turns'em into generic hard rock, but still: "Raw Power," "Search and Destroy," "I Wanna Be Your Dog," "No Fun," "T.V. Eye," "Lust for Life," "The Passenger," "I Got a Right"--I'd watch him play these songs dead, they're so good...
...Life, it seems, is what computers so obviously lack. When people speculate about the impact rapid technological advances are having on our lives and culture, the same fears appear again and again. Will technology steal our humanity or enhance it? Will it change the way we relate to other people and to ourselves? Will we spend our lives responding to machinery and in the process lose our ability to respond to life? Clearly, computers have become vitally important to our society and are becoming increasingly important in our everyday lives, so these questions are not academic...
...else, then, will you compel to undertake the responsibilities of guardians of our state, if it is not to be those who know most about the principles of good government and who have other rewards and a better life than the politician's?" asked Socrates on the sunny shores of ancient Athens. Last Thursday, 2,000 years after Socrates, George A. Papandreou, the Greek minister of foreign affairs, made us think about this very same question at the John F. Kennedy School of Government...