Word: resistive
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...City's protagonist, Max Brackett, who walks the fine line between reporting the news and creating the news. "We all move the line," Gavras says, "but when we cross the line, that's when we get into trouble." Unfortunately, the righteous, sermonic Mad City can't seem to resist crossing that line itself. The film ends up courting the very sin it condemns: warping reality to suit a certain agenda...
...this ex-track star, now a Kirkland House tutor and a third-year graduate student in Slavic languages and literatures, could not resist the sport he had pursued since junior high...
China invaded Tibet in 1950. For the next six years, Tapontsang and her husband worked with other Tibetans to resist the Chinese. In 1956, Tapontsang said, she believes her husband was poisoned. Until her arrest in 1958, Tapontsang orga...
...really glad HSA and OCS are organizing this panel because when I was here there was absolutely no advice," Gabrieli said he "couldn't resist" telling students about his own lessons...
...that this "responsibility" demands a complete fidelity to the source novel. Holland's characteristic quirks and odd-ball sense of humor--in Europa Europa, she made a character's foreskin a consistent source of laughs--resist any firm allegiance to an inherited script. "For me it is more playful to make somebody else's material," she affirms; it allows her to "concentrate on the interpretation more [than] having to create everything from scratch...