Word: powerfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also said it was important for hip-hop artists to understand the power of their song lyrics and take responsibility for those words...
Saturday morning featured what conference organizers described as "Power Sessions...
...find a narrative to streamline 90 minutes of footage while preserving the integrity of the individual performances and the excitement of live slam. Another challenge was marketing the film to general audiences who had preconceived notions of poetry performance. Whether it was his journalistic experience or the power of slam itself. SlamNation converted enough skeptical viewers (Devlin cries, "Ninety minutes of poetry? I'd rather shoot myself!") to jump from the film festival circuit to national release. Devlin's film was one of two released about slam in 1998. He reports that the 1999 National Poetry Slam in Chicago this...
...Harvard community why they thought poetry mattered, and received answers ranging from the bizarre statement of Hatim Belyamani '99, who claimed that poetry "is like a fermented milk shake. It can be cheesy but still quench your thirst" to Christian Lorentzen's '99 statement on the political power that poetry has had in the fight inKosovo: "Epic poetry is one of the roots of the conflict in Kosovo. TheSerb national epic immortalizes their defeat at the hands of the Ottoman Turks on the fields of Kosovo. That's why the Serbs have felt tied to the land even though...
...Stellan Skarsgard help enhance the film's credibility, and in the area of special effects, audiences won't be disappointed (the film's effects supervisor, Jeff Okun, was responsible for the effects in Sphere and Stargate). It remains to be seen whether all of the special effects and star power can take away the smell of a fishy premise...