Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Visual images take over for book's words; for instance, the idea of "haze," a play off Dolores Haze's name which is so prominent in the novel, transforms itself into visible haze in the film, from Humbert's grainy remembrance of his first love, Annabel, to the ever-present cigarette smoke blowing around Quilty and Charlotte Haze's heads. Ethics become obscured amid scenes filled with sweeping vistas of mountains and green hills. Ennio Morricone's contemplative musical score swells with a "Rhapsody in Blue"-like theme, contributing to the movie's seductive power to flood our ears...
Some recipients were not present. The PrimeMinisters of Pakistan and India, who received theIg Nobel Peace Award for "their aggressivelypeaceful explosions of atomic bombs," were not onhand...
Throughout the conference academics and laborleaders will present their positions on the stateof the economy...
...things I discovered working on this subject is that literary study was much more closely allied with what was called `science' in the 18th and 19th centuries as it as at present," he said...
Tricia M. Michels '00, one of the few students in attendance, said the event brought home to her the "immediacy of the issue" in light of the deadline. Michels summed up the general consensus of those present saying, "I hope this is only the beginning...