Word: set
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incredibly well-preserved picture greets the viewer, and the opening scenes appear both surreal and promising. The film is set in 1916, before war-weariness had begun to be epidemic among troops and their homelands. The Germans shoot down a French reconnaissance plane that holds two of the movie's main characters, Lieutenant Marechal (Jean Gabin) and Captain de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay). The film almost prompts laughter, for Erich von Stroheim's Captain von Rauffenstein invites the captured parties for a meal before sending them off to a prison camp...
...This obvious attempt to inject class is not only a shadow of Renoir's leftist leanings, but it also serves to set the grounding for the film's climax. The '90s viewer is accustomed to images of war camps populated with emaciated prisoners living in horrible conditions. Thus, Renoir's attempt to convey a POW camp is incredibly dated...
...Capping off one end of the dining hall is the "stage," a raised portion of the dining hall blocked off by curtains on all sides and set against a mural that looks like the bastard offspring of a Picasso and a blender. The elementary school cafeteria-cum-auditorium look makes the stage the ultimate in public-private reconciliation, offering one of the most postmodern dining experience on campus (the Pforzheimer lovers balconyaside): the private, commensal experience of eating a meal becomes a dramatic public performance--life as an intermission between play acts...
...rushing yards over three and one half seasons, needs 37 more to break Harvard's all-time mark for career rushing yards, held by Eion Hu '97. He already holds the school record for most rushing yards in a season with 1,267 yards, which he set...
...privacy they don't have," says TIME writer Daniel Eisenberg. And as new technologies continue to facilitate the sharing of all sorts of personal information between insurance providers, medical systems and marketing companies, President Clinton is poised to propose new privacy guidelines to protect consumers. The White House regulations, set to be released in the next week or two, would restrict access to patients' medical records, requiring health plans and insurance companies to get patients' permission before sharing any personal information...