Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Massacre and 20 days after the Massacre, he assumed the post of the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Vogel's letter is clearly written in the propaganda style of communist regimes. Furthermore, after Jiang's speech, the Fairbank Center put unnecessary emphasis on his circuitous and vague remark about "mistakes"--in effect trying to justify the visit a posteriori...
Danes, meanwhile, is inconceivably wrapped up in the film's mock-seriousness. At one point after Daisy's mother tells her to get rid of all her excess books, she shrieks, "But mom, books are life!" The remark, like many other such lines, invariably provokes laughter. No matter how much expression Danes infuses into each of her inane sentences, her efforts to add complexity to Daisy's underwritten character are hopeless and inescapably pathetic...
...reminding one group how the golfer Greg Norman squandered a six-shot lead at the Masters. "This thing could get away from us," the President warns. What he meant then was that his pre-election lead in the polls could similarly melt away. All the same, that's a remark that could turn out to be true in ways he didn't mean at the time...
...better than when we came in. We don't always leave feeling better though. The initial attempt to sell us a $40 anti-frizz treatment we brushed off as an attempt to sell us unnecessary services. The allusion to our youthfulness didn't ruffle our feathers. We took the remark about our stodginess in terms of hair style in stride. But--when our stylist told us that we were visibly aging--we almost died. "You can call it whatever you want," he assured us, "but you're turning white...
...scene, and this luminescence is especially effective when compared to the dank atmosphere of the rest of the film. Even some of the periodic "quotation" screens which accompany the film refer to the charms of the young lover: "The girl is so gentle it is unbelievable." The quotations also remark that, under Mieze's influence, Biberkopf's apartment has begun to look like the room of a young girl, with flowers and bows everywhere. Not surprisingly, the apartment regains its former filthiness soon after the death of Mieze, at the hands of the gangster Reinhold...