Word: standly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years, Carrie--Brian De Palma's chilling film based upon the Stephen King novel-has enjoyed a privilege most horror films do not: the right to stand on its own, untarnished by painfully lame sequels. That is, until...
...course, Kubrick did far more than make movies of slightly better quality than those that he saw at the MOMA. Though his filmography is limited (he made only eight movies after 1960), Kubrick's works stand out as some of the hallmarks of film-making in the late 20th century...
...attention to good storytelling in a screenplay, but the real impact of his films is not in the tales that they tell but the ideas they present. he has often been criticized as being too clinical in his treatment of troubling subjects, of not taking a moral stand against the problems he portrayed. But that distance Kubrick maintained from his subjects was perhaps his greatest strength. It was the distance of a social critic, a diagnoser of modern ills...
...boys from 'N SYNC have enough hits to stand on their own, however. The powerful encore of "I Want You Back," their version of Christopher Cross' "Sailing" (during which the angelic-looking boys, now wearing white, were flown by hydraulics over the teeming masses) and the barnburner "Tearin' Up My Heart" brought the already-hyped crowd into frenzied convulsions of dancing and screaming...
...came to a better understanding of where they stand, and we hope they came to a better understanding of where we stand," Berkowitz said of Wednesday's meeting between Anne Taylor, Harvard's general counsel, and his own attorney, Matthew Feinberg of the Boston firm Feinberg & Kamholtz...