Word: precursores
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...High Art shares In the Company of Men's tendencies toward pretension and detachment, it also recalls its Sundance precursor for its literate dialogue, nuanced portrayals and admirable breadth of vision. Cholodenko would have done well to decide early on if her film was about three women artists or about Art as embodied in three women; her title implies a closer sympathy with the broader, less intimate project. all the same, Sheedy and Cholodenko especially more than prove their mettle, giving us hope that their talents and potential will come to fuller flower than the story suggests is possible. Like...
Thomas said her work at the Bunting Institute was a precursor to her current work on the human rights of women in the U.S., including a 347- page report she authored on sexual abuse of women in state prisons...
Carret took risks outside the stock markets: he joined the Army Signal Corps, a precursor to the Air Force, after graduation from the College and was trained to fly the Sopwith Camel, a vintage airplane...
...Jones's great accomplishment in The Healing. The stylistic design optimally supports the narrative's broad theme of constructing a personal identity in a world bent on its destruction. At one point, Jones encapsulates this quest for self by retelling the biography of Grandmother Jaboti, Harlan's ancestral precursor in the art of identity building. Jaboti began her life not as a human but as a turtle-woman in a traveling carnival freak show, kept on display between the bearded lady and the unicorn girl. She might have lived as a convinced turtle-woman forever...
...explosion of "Goldeneye," the Nintendo game which has everybody from C.S. to the A.D. staying in on the weekend just to blow away the bad guys. Stepping into James' squeaky-clean shoes and kicking some evil arss is a classy way to spend an evening. Unlike its futuristic precursor "Doom," "Goldeneye" includes a final level in which James graphically seduces a Russian double agent. Haven't gotten there? Keep playing...