Word: presse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reporter said in the press box on Friday, "well, we've got ourselves a shootout here." How right...
...film, however, is not always successful in engaging its audience. When a character exclaims "I can't take it any more!" towards the middle of the film, several critics at the press screening hollered "Neither can we!" and promptly left the theater. Others, however, sat rapt with attention throughout the closing credits. The wildly mixed response to the film is likely because of its unconventionality. As the first American "Dogme 95" film, a Norwegian cinematic movement that calls for the "stripping down of film," donkey-boy was shot using hand-held cameras and without written dialogue or special lighting...
Wills drew on his journalism experience during the lecture, suggesting that the press can use its role to clarify the Constitution...
...above), director Eric Simonson's adapted script is too inconsistent to be praised. Besides containing about twelve too many characters (with not an interesting female role in the bunch), the script lacks the moral ambiguity that would have made The Last Hurrah a more intellectually engaging production. The press material for the play asks the seminal question "Is Skeffington a compassionate champion of the poor, an unscrupulous back-room deal maker, or both?" and it is clear early on in one's evening that the answer will not be hard to figure out. Yes, indeed, professional politicians need to step...
Wills, described as a "Renaissance man" by Acting Director of the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy Thomas Patterson, delivered the 10th annual White Lecture on Press and Politics, an address previously given by broadcasters Walter Cronkite and Cokie Roberts...