Word: storming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, as the storm clouds threatened above, the Crimson's freshman force opened the floodgates...
...perspective and can be more attuned to more subtle aspects of American culture. Ang Lee has proved himself to be quite an insightful observer of American life, directing both Pushing Hands, a well-told story about a mixed Asian marriage and the cultural struggles it creates, and The Ice Storm, a subtle and powerful film about WASP culture in the '70s. Both films, the latter especially, emphasize the unhappiness and ennui that infects suburban existence. Directed by Sam Mendes, a British theater director, American Beauty continues in this burgeoning tradition, framing, with a keen eye, the miseries and peculiarities...
...whores, be lover of liars, lover of women, a Christ dragged and dirtied? Will he be Christ with faith flagging, flogged, wielding wildly thorns? Will he be Christ rising from rudeness and doubt to take the cross like a shining scepter? Is this Christ the song, Christ the storm, Christ the lamb or lion? Who steps onto our stage, into our lives, dies for us? For whom will...
...battle over genetically engineered "frankenfoods" that has taken Europe by storm in recent months appears to be headed across the Atlantic. After a Cornell researcher reported in May that genetically altered corn crops were killing off the monarch butterfly, now comes an article in a top British medical journal, The Lancet, that links modified potatoes to intestinal problems in lab rats. Although the article is accompanied by an editor's note describing the findings as "preliminary" and cautions that they should not be used to make generalizations about genetically modified (GM) crops, they are being seized upon...
...then again, ignorance seems to be the goal of this silent storm sweeping the nation. First they want us to think that religion is under attack using the fallacious example of Cassie Bernall, then they want us to think that creationism is a legitimate alternative to evolution in science classrooms, and finally they want us to teach our kids that the only way to prevent pregnancy is not to have sex. This leaves American youth in Kansas ill-prepared to deal with a university education, in Texas ill-prepared to deal with sex, and everywhere convinced that their elders...