Word: mold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story supposedly proving that Asian Americans are "breaking the mold" turns out to be an all too familiar picture of resigned people going about their distinctly 'Asian' ways, unthinking and helplessly rationalizing their pre-med choices. No wonder I never joined the Asian American Association. They have too much of a chip on their collective shoulder...
...contrived "Immortal Beloved" would have worked better as a farce. The film's misguided distortion of facts simply can't sustain high drama. In one scene, Beethoven's doomed nephew, driven to suicide by his uncle's frustarted attempts to mold him into a musical prodigy, shoots himself in the head. In a scene reminiscent of the Time-Life "Mysteries of the Unknown" commercial, the composer, miles away, simultaneously doubles over in pain...
...where "Blue" and "White" found it difficult to overcome a lack of focus, "Red" soars. On its own, this is an extraordinary film. While the first two films may have been forced into the mold of the trilogy, Kieslowski seems confident enough with "Red" to leave it alone. Whether or not it is the perfect expression of fraternity does not matter...
...Thomas-Hill Books. Call it neo-Thomism. Recent additions include Senator John Danforth's Resurrection and Jane Meyer and Jill Abramson's Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas. If ever we become tired of the Democrat/Republican two-party system, we could always mold American politics around the great Thomas-Hill divide...
...They are supposed to be extremely womanizing, boozing and socializing in that order," he says. "You get used to hanging out, boozing and going to the [Crimson Sports] Grille. You get used to the socializing and you can't break the mold...