Word: longings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three white people in a bar. He proceeds to spend the next 19 years in prison. So this reviewer sits back and waits for a movie about American racial politics to unfold. But wait, suddenly the movie turns into a lush exposition on the joys of boxing, and a long narrative with lovingly trained camera angles on Denzel Washington's bare body results. The movie, based on Rubin Carter's autobiography, The 16th Round, now seems to join in the trend of a new wave of boxing films, such as the upcoming Play It To The Bone, Fight Club...
...movie that just tries too hard to accomplish too much. And what suffers the most? Explanations and motives for half of the movie, which, Jewison, in trying to incorporate every Oscar-worthy theme in filmmaking, has no choice but to leave out in a movie that is already very long. So we're never given a real reason as to why the ridiculously sinister Depalowski goes out of his way to persecute (and believe me, he really goes out of his way) a black boy out of all the black boys that are in his jurisdiction. Nor are we ever...
...session was part of a nearly two-week-long conference titled Women Waging Peace Initiative, sponsored in part by the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). The conference brought the delegates together to discuss ways to better integrate women into peacemaking processes...
...time, someone on the innovative Crimson staff decides to trot out the stock arguments against final clubs. I suppose this is better than when they put articles on the front page telling us that a particular club is closed, although the reporter doesn't know why, or for how long. Maybe there is just a lack of news or nothing better to opine about. Silly me, I thought there was a presidential campaign going...
...treacly and trite that it verges on being offensive. The young Frank McCourt, a fresh-faced Irishman with high hopes for the future, is looking out from a boat onto the Statue of Liberty--his first look at the beloved United States for which he's yearned for so long. As the score swells and Frank beams with delight, there's a moment of suspense before you realize that a chorus of ragged Irish immigrants isn't actually going to line up behind him and start singing "America, the Beautiful." This scene is a far cry from the real ending...