Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really want you to see the movie The Talented Mr. Ripley. Even though I still haven't decided how I feel about the embellishments concocted by writer-director Anthony Minghella to update this compelling tale of 1950's class envy and blossoming psychosis. The outlines of the story are the same in both versions: Tom Ripley (Matt Damon), a poor, smart chameleon, comes to Italy under false pretenses and insinuates himself into the wealthy life of prodigal Dickie "Ouch!" Greenleaf (Jude Law). Dickie's not always as naughty as the name suggests, but sometimes he's far worse. Jude...
...Codes of Culture making fun of the title would be shooting fish in a barrel we come to the hardly surprising realization that There is no generic reader, out there; in Our Century, Gordimer is a long distance from shocking us with the information that The mushroom cloud still hangs over us, and the unbearably trite corollary question: will it be there as a bequest to the new century...
...from the pains we in the "real" world face every day. But this is a fault that can easily be forgiven in a play as delightfully outrageous as Idiots. It's not just any production that can end with a prolonged and improbable verb conjugation and still rightfully call itself entertaining...
...Huskies have lost just one starter from last year's team--forward Betsy Palecek, who averaged 15.7 ppg and 5.5 rpg. Furthermore, Northeastern still has the player who could wind up as the top Husky scorer in history...
...When Bibi contemplates suicide in a letter, Karen says the only freedoms that remain for the Chinese are "when to die, how to die and for what we will die." When Bibi complains of her mother's disapproval of her career and life choices, Karen wishes she still had a mother to scold her: her mother had been taken away and executed by the government for stealing food for her children. Bibi and Karen shine realistically in their roles--they, like their countries, are not idealized. Each reacts selfishly to the other's problems. Each wants what she does...