Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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David O Russell, after the light Oedipal drama of Spanking the Monkey and the impeccably funny Flirting with Disaster, directs Three Kings with the acute satirical eye that made his earlier films so successful. The compassion that made Flirting with Disaster so much less cruel a comedy than, say, There's Something About Mary allows him to expound on and reveal the hypocrisy, prejudices and petty acts of violence of the American soldiers in Iraq without flattening his characters into types or making his script implausible. There are ample comedic moments: ass jokes, an exploding cow, the presence of Marky...
...Radcliffe has been around for 120 years," said A. Keene Metzger '67, the Institute's dean of administration and finance. "She deserves that we be here to see the light go from her... At the same time, we should see the first breath go into the lungs of the Radcliffe Institute...
...program consisted of a video followed by a discussion on the validity of the Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT) in light of social, racial and economic factors that significantly influence an individual's score...
Sure it's trite, sure Melissa Joan Hart might still clearly remember both the rise and fall of break-dancing, sure high-school dances do not have fifty foot television screens in the center of the dance floor. Although Drive Me Crazy does not have the light-hearted self-mocking tone of Clueless or the moody, pretentious tone of Cruel Intentions, the general theme of the movie is wonderfully formulaic. Indeed this clichd approach to high school works; the triteness of the plot renders this movie awfully comforting; everything always come out okay in the end: candied apples and lollipops...
...Nobel awards were founded in 1991 by Abrahams. The awards are intended to make light of "things that a lot of people expect to be intimidated by and not to like," Abrahams said. This category includes everything from science to opera. Besides a number of science demonstrations, last night's ceremony included a four-act opera that mixed tunes from Carmina Burana and other operas into a story that examined the issues of cloning humans and sheep...