Word: realm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Zahedi's impotence as a director also affects the film technically. Never graduating beyond the realm of home video, the camera sits on a tripod or occasionally gets plucked off its stand producing a dizzying effect, only to bounce on the camera operator's shoulder, creating the horror of nautical nausea...
...answers to these questions are not to be found in the demonstrations of any peer educators. They haven't thought of such things. Students engaged in such "training sessions" in high schools or on this campus are doing nothing less than initiating their peers into a realm of sex which, as presented, can be nothing less than abusive. According to such groups, unhinged sexual passion is more than hedonistic satisfaction--so long as a condom is worn...
...Tempest is about emancipation: Prospero escapes his exile, Ariel emerges from servitude, Miranda enters the realm of adult passion. Yet this production fails to free its audience. When the storm clears, our feelings--like many a storm-tossed thing--are hopelessly knotted...
...Accords in 1979 visibly shocked the Arab peoples who still desperately wanted to believe in Nasserist slogans calling for Pan-Arabian and the destruction of the Jewish state. Admittedly, Sadat's peace initiative had tremendous historical as well as symbolic value, but it was never intended to transcend the realm of symbolism. Sadat was celebrated as a hero in the West but remained largely unpopular at home and was labeled a traitor all over the Arab world. The years of "cold peace" following his death signaled Egypt's reluctance to translate the symbolic peace into "real" peace that could benefit...
...achievements were effortless. Where he could have made his self-realized mark, where he could have impressed his father, was in quite a different realm. Mantle's wasted potential pained him more than his remarkable accomplishments impressed...