Word: projecting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Watching 36 year-old Zhang Yuan's films is like walking through a Rorscharchian gallery--viewers' reactions reveal not only their psychological bias and perspective on society, but also the goal of Zhang's underlying artistic project. Unlike the majority of Chinese filmmakers today who make appeasingly jovial movies, Zhang sees his work as social stimuli. It is telling that he prefers to be called an "artist" rather than a "filmmaker...
...relevancy of his films to everyday life is undoubtedly what causes the censors to choke. Brutal observations of dysfunctional personal and family life in modern China do not fit into the State's project of socialist utopia. By making films that force the Chinese to look into amirror of their own experiences, he seeks to "provoke Chinese people's thinking about their real lives and stir their memories of what has happened in the past." Yet even Zhang seems wary of his own medicine: he has not let his family see his films because watching them "invokes too much pain...
...Cambridge and Somerville Cooperative Apartment Project (CASCAP), a housing development group founded at Phillips Brooks House in 1973, said two of its projects face immediate funding shortfalls...
...Kiley says HIID's organization makes it prone to disputes like his. HIID project managers are expected to write monthly reports, detailing for the home office how each program is running. But, Kiley says, the reports are often little more than rehashed versions of the previous month's--sometimes with nothing more than a change of date...
...early 1990s, the Institute advised the Russian government on its transition to a capitalist economy. Economics Professor Andre Shleifer '82 oversaw the project, which was paid for by a $57 million grant from...