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...movie theaters, and the figurehead of this movement is the controversial and enigmatic Lars von Trier. With the release of Dancer in the Dark, von Trier has taken center stage as cinema's most hated yet challenging directors of the new millennium. As founder of Dogma 95, the filmic manifesto equal parts mocking and serious, he created a mission statement to scale down cinema and bring an honesty, directness,and more personal style that was previously found in filmmaking giants such as Bresson, Dreyer and Ozu. This decree has spawned the use of handheld video over 35mm film, as well...
...star, as it were, of the first two episodes is Morgan, an id-driven, Ritalin-popping, parent-dissing menace to propriety who opens High with a hormone-charged manifesto: "These are the years that you're supposed to go [bleep] wildHave unprotected sex! Go do drugs! Smoke cigarettes! Drink alcohol! Watch porno! Rent porno movies! Get porno magazines! Porno, porno, porno!" With his close-cropped blond hair, foul language (bleeped for TV) and suburban-homey getup, he's one of the million angry wannabe boys that Eminem pegs in The Real Slim Shady, "Who cuss like me/ Who just...
...wasn't long ago that repealing the estate tax was considered a Republican pipe dream. Even the Contract with America, Newt Gingrich's revolutionary manifesto, didn't dare scrap the progressive-era levy on inheritances, which annually raises some $50 billion. How things have changed. Last month the House voted to kill the estate tax, with scores of Democrats joining the G.O.P. Last week the Senate followed suit, with nine Democrats supporting the Republican majority. President Clinton vows he will veto the measure when it hits his desk this week, calling it too expensive and a subsidy for the rich...
...Many of the scientists involved in the conference had hoped to foreclose what they see as a debate that was resolved a decade ago by signing onto to the "Durban Declaration," a manifesto published in Nature magazine underlining the urgency of curbing the spread of HIV as the priority in the fight against AIDS. The declaration concurs that economic factors such as malnutrition make those infected more prone to the rapid onset of AIDS following HIV infection, and also that poverty puts lifesaving treatments beyond the means of the overwhelming majority of those infected. But it stresses that "none...
...fervent nonswimmers like me, Steven Spielberg's JAWS is a cinematic manifesto. We identify with Roy Scheider's hydrophobic police chief--mocked for his fear of water until that hungry shark shows up. This summer marks Jaws' 25th anniversary, and as a tribute to the No. 1 nonswimmer's film of all time, a list follows of the other Top 24 films living up to the motto "Don't go in the water." Seeing movie stars drown is especially comforting between June and August, the season of peer pressure, when the swimming class harangues the rest of us with nonsense...