Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...risking all their capital on this trundle into self-discovery. Their itinerary, compared with that of their role models, is truncated and painfully mainstream. It consists largely of Las Vegas, where she loses their nest egg in a night, and Hoover Dam, where they have a marital wrangle the scope of which matches the backdrop. But never mind this minimalism. Brooks (who directed Lost in America and co-wrote it with Monica Johnson) is a shrewd, deadpan observer of the secret life of middle-class Americans. He likes to bring their dreams of glorious escape to life, let them taste...
Hall who oversaw the nine month search to fall the new post, said be first looked within Harvard and other New England university for a communication director, but when he could not find a qualified candidate he broadened his scope to corporations...
While most people associate the "Ex" with innovative--and often oblique--performances of radical modern plays, members of the Harvard Radcliffe Drama Club (HRDC) are hoping to revamp that image by broadening the scope of the theater's presentations. Since, as Gutwillig says, the space is "not inherently dramatic," organizers have sought to fill the space with a variety of artistic disciplines during the preseason and postseason, while reserving the regular season for more traditional offerings...
...Ford's best roles yet, allowing him greater scope than Han Solo in Star Wars or Indiana Jones or the hot rodder he portrayed in American Grafitti or the chilling Army officer in Apocalypse Now. But he is right when he says that John Book is not a stretch from his other characters: it is an extension. Some people, he complains, say, " 'Well, Witness is really acting. It's great you're getting a chance to play a real person.' " In fact, he says, with some asperity, "my ambition was to play real people in Star Wars and Raiders. Doing...
While admirable for the scope of its research, especially the extensive interviews with the photographer's friends. Bosworth's biography does not go far enough in filling in the person where there now stands a myth. The author, it seems., cannot get beyond seeing Arbus as a person who liked gutsy challenges and reveal her as someone unable to face reality. Thirteen years after her death the myth of Diane Aubus has ripened. The portray presented here tries to accomodate the fantastic element, to take the mythic status as a given and larch on to descriptions that pander...