Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WILL WIN: Steven Spielberg. The Academy loves to reward Spielberg for taking on serious themes. And why not? The fact that he does films like Jurassic Park 2 simply highlights the highflown goals of a movie like this. Saving Private Ryan is every bit the directorial triumph. However, keep an eye out for a dark horse-scads of film critics' organizations have been giving Best Picture to Spielberg while reserving directorial honors for quirky, Harvard-educated Malick...
...show's ongoing humorous skit, for example, a detective was investigating the murder of one of the cast members. Although the skit's inclusion was initially surprising to many in the audience, several audience members said they thoroughly enjoyed as a counterpoint to the other more "serious" acts...
...show's ongoing humorous skit, for example, a detective was investigating the murder of one of the cast members. Although the skit's inclusion was initially surprising to many in the audience, several audience members said they thoroughly enjoyed as a counterpoint to the other more "serious" acts...
Beginning in the '70s, women began to elbow their way into the field and develop serious alternatives to the old, male-centered theory of human evolution. It shouldn't matter, of course, what sex the scientist is, but women had their own reasons for being suspicious of the dominant paradigm. The first revisionist blow came in the mid-'70s, when anthropologists Adrienne Zihlman and Nancy Tanner pointed out that among surviving "hunting" peoples, most of the community's calories--up to 70%--come from plant food patiently gathered by women, not meat heroically captured by men. The evidence for Stone...
With the infectious pop of "Every Monday," the crowd was bumping and jumping into one another, as sweat-drenched Walker, Fincher and Slug continued to thrash and prance around the stage. Before one of the last songs, in one of the only serious, sincere moments of the concert, Walker told about the rigorous, endless, draining work filled with shady bars, rickety old vans and cheap motels that Marvelous3 endured just to hear one of their songs on the radio. With this, they played, to the excitement of the crowd, "Freak of the Week," a semi-popular radio hit that...