Word: scoping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...healthy pace of 4.5% a year. The inflation rate stands at 25%, less than half the level of a year ago. Factories and other businesses are reopening. Though once a committed socialist, Aristide has agreed to International Monetary Fund and World Bank demands that he reduce tariffs, limit the scope of government involvement in the economy and begin the process of privatizing Haiti's inefficient and money-losing state-owned companies...
...Studies, examines U.S. history and society through the critical lens of race. Given the central role that race has played and continues to play in the histories of Americans in general and ethnic minorities in particular, it is essential that the study of race not be limited to the scope of a black-white paradigm. Expanding the study of race to include the experiences of other racialized minorities, namely Asian-Americans, Latino-Americans and Native-Americans, exposes the paradigm as an incomplete model. Including the study of these particular groups, however, does not exclude the examination of American peoples...
Much time is dedicated to issues such as sexism and homophobia, while the problems of black sons growing up without black fathers is given barely thirty seconds. Riggs should have narrowed his scope down to the issues which he already invests the majority of his time, and cut the issues about which he has less...
...content with throwing in the odd gratuitous buttock scene or some flamingly inept symbolism, Joffe and Stewart decide to addend several new themes to give more scope to their crassness...
...this rather trite dichotomy does give scope for the film's most redeeming quality: the cinematography. Director of photography Jonathan Cornick captures straight-laced Puritanism in idyllic shots awash with scullers, clapboard and steeples straight from an Eakins canvas. Dramatic cliffs and dense forests redolent of Bierstadt represent America's noble savagery. Happily, such arresting backdrops tend to distract the audience from the action...