Word: reminded
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...that said, I'm inclined to cut The Great Debaters a certain amount of slack. It wants to speak of large issues that remain relevant to us today. It wants to remind us that the seemingly abstract issues these young people are grappling with had authentic, immediate and dangerous implications in their own lives. And that we are not all that far removed from a time in this country when simply being black, whether outspoken or invisible, was a highly risky business. The film may be manipulative in its construction, and cliché-ridden in some of the incidents...
...leaving the investigation of the destruction of the tapes to a sympathetic Justice Department, the Bush administration has once again used the language of fear to dodge responsibility. This time, members of Congress must not delegate their role to check the power of the executive. Instead, they must remind the American public who authorized the contents of the tapes in the first place...
...comes the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, keepers of the Golden Globe Awards, to remind Hollywood that there is a middle way between ornery independent films and the mindless mainstreamers: the period romantic drama. Atonement, from the Ian McEwen novel about a love affair betrayed in posh 1930s England, received seven nominations, more than any other film, in the Globe list made public today. It's still OK, the HFPA said, to have an elevated, old-fashioned cry at the movies...
...Puerto Rico where she studied lizards. Approximately 350 students, professors, and Wilson fanatics attended the event, according to HMNH Director of Communications and Marketing Blue Magruder. The film was briefly interrupted by a “technical difficulty.” “I just want to remind you you’re at one of the leading universities in the world,” Executive Director of the HMNH Elisabeth Werby said in reference to the glitch. With the onset of new technologies, Mollecular and Cellular Biology has moved to the forefront of science, leaving current scientists with...
...Robin Williams, the film features notable actors, including Christopher Walken, who plays Williams’s campaign manager, and Laura Linney, who works for a corrupt electronic voting machine company. The movie shows how innovative dark horse candidates have to be to catch the public’s eye. (Remind anyone of Martel-Zimmerman’s plan to abolish parliamentary procedures at UC meetings?) For those of legal age, sit back, relax, and put on your patriotic best. You’ve survived the bulk of the campaign week: you deserve it. TAKE A SHOT?...