Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Joseph Dorman is the director of Arguing the World, a documentary tracing the lives of four of the New York Intellectuals: Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer and Irving Kristol. The film begins with Marxism in the '30s and closes with Neo-Conservatism in the present day. The Crimson spoke to Dorman after the premiere screening of his film at Brookline's Coolidge Corner Theatre...
...which transformation would you prefer? At age 47, would you rather be a linear extrapolation of your present self, or a radical discontinuity that no one but your family could trace? It would be nice to think that we have some choice in the matter, but the signs of success in one pursuit or the other come all too late. A friend of my father's once intended to take a still-frame photo of his face every day for 50 years using a movie camera. The idea was, as I understand it, to eventually play the entire reel from...
...angsting over these issues is such a common phenomena, then why are Harvard undergrads seemingly unconcerned with present change, and instead obsess over their future goals? This is perhaps the first time in our lives where time accelerates palpably; for some reason, undergraduate life at Harvard makes it feel like a suture being rapidly yanked...
Krippendorf's Tribe centers around widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf (Richard Dreyfuss) and how, after spending grant money on rearing his dysfunctional children, he is forced to present his findings on the "undiscovered" New Guinea tribe that he was supposed to have used the money to study. The resulting mess that follows is a formulaic farce filled with poor acting, an even poorer script and obnoxious, one-dimensional characters with barely anything sympathetic about them. Occasionally, the film tries to get warm and sweet, but concludes with a contrived and impossible ending. Leaving the theatre, one cannot help feeling that Touchstone...
...that aircraft,? says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. ?Pointing the finger at all four men suggests there may have been a pact among them to engage in some sort of horseplay. The Marines were not impressed that all four crewmen initially refused to testify, allowing them to collude and present a common account...