Word: spirited
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...book of the same name by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo, “He’s Just Not That Into You” is both a close adaptation and wide interpretation of its original text. At its start, the film stays faithful to the book in both spirit and form, using endearing but direct humor and exaggerated cases to prove the authors’ points. Gigi is meant to represent the universal female voice—constantly worrying, obsessing, overanalyzing, and most of all, making excuses for men. Alex is the suave manager of a bar, who coolly...
...simultaneously reminiscent of Kesey and Orwell. Through his eyes, Vilnius is “a dead city, and above it hangs a fog of submissive, disgusting fear.” It has become a landscape “where Russia’s expansionism and Europe’s spirit went to war,” and one that has anticlimatically subsided into an achromatic wasteland. To Vargalas, Vilnius is the worst kind of hell—an inferno devoid of flames and full instead of gray—made in the likeness of its own architects...
...American Dream is not only in the midst of a reevaluation, the morality of aspects of that Dream is in question. If, in coming years, the old unbridled pursuit of happiness (corporate greed, sub-prime mortgages) comes to be synonymous with a decaying economy and an injured American spirit, might this threaten the boundless optimism to which Pepsi has tied itself? Will the benefits of identifying the Pepsi brand so closely with Obama’s clarion call for a new era of hope carry over during a more tempered, less oratorical Obama administration?They seem to be confident that...
...Wallach ’07 couldn’t possibly have looked nerdier—he sports a curly Jew-fro and bowtie—while singing about having safe sex with a cheating girl. Bandmate Maxwell C. Drummey ’07 seems to embody the rocker spirit with shoulder length hair and the stony, “I don’t give a damn” look. However, his style must have been too hip a statement as both Drummey and Wallach get brutally beaten in the music video by a girl half their size...
...artwork was inspired by “techniques of ecstasy,” a material and ceremonial form of inspiration used by Yoruba tribesmen to escape the bounds of the physical world and break through to the spiritual world. Through his photography, Fani-Kayode hoped to find his true spirit by transcending the conventions of his environment—from the conservative social mores of Yoruba culture to the prejudices of Western society. The intent behind the photography of “Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)” is clearly honest, open, and noble. However, whether Fani-Kayode?...