Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the effects be supported by characters, plots and situations that they care about. This is why the Star Wars Trilogy has maintained such constant and long-lived popularity. Unlike GGI, the then ground-breaking, now obsolete, special effects did not free the filmmakers from craftily having to introduce, present, disguise and surround the illusions they created. As a result, the battle sequences in Star Wars abound with solid directing, editing and score-writing; indeed they required these skills to make the analog effects technology not come off as cheesy. The recent release of the Special Edition Star Wars movies...
Hence the deliberate bumping of the story to 1910 (the novel was first published in 1902), to accentuate the closeness to present-day society of this transitory period of modernization, down to the street lights, elevators, subways and evening gowns. Hence also, perhaps, the film's overt eroticism, which constitutes the boldest and most potentially controversial reworking of the text. In James, the eroticism is so finely distilled that it breaks through to the surface only fleetingly, and then restricted almost entirely to the violence of suggestion and language rather than action. Softley's contemporized approach works because...
Gates will be the one living honoree not present at the ceremony...
...real world (I knew at least of Marx); but that there is not a singular universal truth. Values, the grounding for theory, are specific to cultures, yet what underlies all of these pluralistic cultures is a common humanity which allows us to study foreign civilizations past and present and to communicate with them as well as with each other...
...military action, Aziz exhibited the bravado of the doomed: "It makes no difference to Iraq's leadership if another wave of missiles falls on Baghdad, because nothing can be worse than what we are going through at present...