Word: reals
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Even suggesting that they do is a political façade. Rather than delude Americans into thinking that two to three years of (potentially forbiddingly expensive) oil and gas aids the energy crisis, Obama needs to focus on greater investment in sustainable, alternative energy solutions. The real problem lies in the United States’s heavy reliance on oil and fossil fuels, which generate greenhouse gases and particulate matter, which, in turn, cause serious health issues like asthma...
...extracurricular—an activity outside the realm of serious work—acting itself is labor of sorts. Memorizing the lines, building the set—which the cast did last Sunday as a group task—and performing are all activities that could develop into real-life professions...
Chainey ends her drive at a café, introducing a waitress with real flair: Dolores Dante (Kyla N. Haggerty ’13). In “It’s an Art,” Haggerty sings, “Waitressing is like performing; it’s intoxicating,” as she dances with flourish from customer to customer. Haggerty shows that performers work on the most unexpected of stages, even with trays of food in hand...
...continuity. The latter is especially evident when Ida’s son is suddenly introduced as an adult after an inexplicable temporal leap in the narrative. To make matters even more confusing, the adult son is played by the same actor who portrays Mussolini. Furthermore, although the montages of real-life Italian scenes of political turmoil accompanying the events in the film constitute a very interesting approach to crafting a fictionalized historical account, their unexpected placement undermines the sense of fluidity...
...hard to recall now, in our video-saturated world, the dramatic impact of that first grainy videotape of real combat operations. U.S. Army General Norman Schwarzkopf wowed the world 19 years ago during the first Gulf War, when he swapped his maps and pointer for a large video screen. "I'm now going to show you a picture of the luckiest man in Iraq," the general said as the screen showed the fellow crossing a bridge moments before a U.S. bomb obliterated it. The effect was instantaneous, putting anyone with a TV inside the cockpit to witness death and destruction...