Word: ruts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spike Lee is better at setting agendas than he is at making movies. The laudable intention behind Crooklyn is, he says, to move beyond "the hip-hop, drug, gangsta-rap, urban-inner-city movies," which he claims constitute "a rut" into which black filmmakers have fallen. He has a point, though some of his competitors' work (for example, The Inkwell) has shown more range than he cares to admit. What he does not have here is a movie that attractively accomplishes his goal...
Thus appearing simultaneously to celebrate and parody Aristophanes' world, this production is unclear in its message. This confusion of purpose confines the production to a bawdy exultation of rut, making it lack dramatic, or even comedic tension. Two demensional characterization and widespread overacting renders the interpersonal relationships and the various plot-twists uninteresting...
...those who prefer to think in post-modern terms, Brazil offers the high and the low, especially when it merges the ideals of romantic love with a perpetual state of rut. The results include "the muck of the psyche," where "sex is nature's dirty work" and "perversity, like chastity, overcomes the bestial drive." The couple's caves of love take many forms: the leafy median of a busy highway, glittering condominium apartments, primitive gold- mining camps and the floor of the Amazon. The sacred and the profane are part of the same ooze. Lyricism mingles with basic Anglo-Saxon...
With his team's overall record now at 4-2 (1-0 Ivy), Sullivan has finally broken out of the losing rut that plagued him during the his first two seasons at Harvard...
...imminent demise of the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club. Far from being "dead" as Williams asserts, we are alive as never before. In an open and honest election, the members of our organization overwhelmingly endorsed myself and my colleagues as the best choice to lever this club out of the rut in which it has been stuck for so long...