Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nowhere interesting. But that's the way of this film. The possibly admirable intention is to avoid the false good cheer of the typical family drama. But it has been replaced by the equally false gloominess that often passes for seriousness in Hollywood. Jack the Bear plays as if Maxim Gorky had for some reason been asked to try his hand at a sitcom...
...governed state can ever be founded in Russia that is not based on a uniquely Russian understanding of injustice. As a popular maxim puts it, if a Russian peasant discovers that his neighbor has two pigs and he has only one, he would rather see his neighbor's extra pig slaughtered than raise a second one of his own. Such crude but firmly ingrained egalitarian ideas predate communism. They help explain why the average Russian is so suspicious of the new breed of street entrepreneur who hawks everything from bathtub fixtures to brassieres on city sidewalks. He welcomes the sudden...
...This is one of those losses as a coach that you've got to be happy with," Harvard Coach Tim Wheaton said. "Of course, you're always disappointed with a loss, but it's an old coaching maxim that you can never be upset if your team plays well. We played real well today...
...modern parent could turn Tolstoy's famous maxim on its head and say, "No families, happy or unhappy, are alike." But as Judge Gangel-Jacob ponders the evidence to determine whether Mia is a fit mother and Woody any kind of a father, she may conclude that the Sesame Street brood of Farrow's is like every other family. Only more of them. And more...
APPARENTLY, THOUGH, the old maxim still holds: a strong man is a leader, a strong woman is a bitch. Remember how relieved people were when "domineering" Nancy Reagan left the White House and soft, grandmotherly Barbara Bush moved in? We should have been grateful that though we were deluded enough to elect a president who thought trees caused pollution, we still had someone in the White House who had a brain and wasn't afraid...