Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notion that a film's look and tone can be its subject is, well, foreign to Hollywood directors, for whom the basic elements are a propulsive story and some slambang special effects. But as Chen Kaige shows in the humid, tumid Temptress Moon, image is all. Reuniting the stars (Hong Kong's Leslie Cheung and the mainland's Gong Li) of his 1993 Farewell My Concubine, Chen paints a glamorous portrait of drugs and decadence in 1920s China. The leaders of today's China, addicted to the old narcotic of Maoism, may have seen the film as an unflattering mirror...
...Only if you think there's a real dearth of scholarly merit in Afro-American [studies] (so that concentration means there's nobody any good anywhere else--which is a preposterous notion) is this field different from any other," he adds...
...determine appropriate methods of resistance. One common method that is used to indoctrinate precocious young undergraduates with the philosophy necessary to succeed among America's elite is to place an inordinate value on tradition. The enshrinement of tradition begins with Harvard itself; students are continually exposed to the notion that Harvard's storied past, its influential alumni, and its continuing prestige are worthy of an almost sacred respect...
...plan that appears to have widespread support among the Faculty is the notion of integrating courses taught in foreign languages into other concentrations and Core requirements so that they do not infringe on electives...
Specialization also poses a threat to the historic notion that undergraduates should study a classical canon of knowledge...