Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Epic in scope and grandeur, Anastasia almost pulls off the impossible--upstaging Disney. Trying to emulate the grand love stories of the past, it sweeps between dazzling sequences but lacks the necessary character development to move the film beyond being merely a disjointed string of lavish set pieces. Still, though the villain element falls hopelessly flat, the love story comes to life in the voices of Meg Ryan, John Cusack and Angela Lansbury. The challenge to the animated empire is clear: Disney magic is no longer an exclusive product...
Still, the idea of whiteness studies strikes a dissonant chord with many people, in part because of their uncertainty of the field's area or scope. But Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel West '74, a pillar of the Afro-American studies department at Harvard, told me that "like any other area, [in whiteness studies] there's some high quality and some low quality and the high quality stuff is very important because...it forces people to think not just about whiteness in the abstract, but to really wrestle with white skin privilege in America. It's part of what...
...still allow Jim to get his vision on the screen," he says. But Cameron isn't one to compromise. And firing him wasn't an option. Not only had he written the script; he might be one of the few directors alive who could orchestrate a project of this scope. "We were already in for a lot of money," Mechanic says. "There was only one way to get our money out, which was to make the best possible movie...
...nature of the subject itself, that great monument to the folly of arrogant confidence. But believe me, I have never felt arrogance or certainty on this project. Quite the opposite. It has been a nerve-racking, terrifying ride. The budget overages threatened to consume our very sanity; the scope of the thing was overwhelming. But something kept us going--the studio heads, myself, the crew. We knew we had a chance to do something special, and those chances don't come along often...
Galluccio said that there is still significant scope for greater involvement by the University and its students...