Word: studiness
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...together")--all are unworthy of joining even this pickup team. But there is talent out there. The Bowler (Janeane Garofalo) has a magic ball with her father's head inside; Dad nags her from beyond the grave. Spleen (Paul Reubens) unleashes fart darts, silent but deadly. The Sphinx (Wes Studi) has a profoundly inane aphorism for every tight spot. Invisible Boy (Kel Mitchell) may one day live up to his name. In unity these losers find strength and cool. The unholy three become the Seven Glamourai...
Knowles says he defines ethnic studi very broadly, as "the study of race and ethnicity in the United States and worldwide...
...last thing you expect to see in the '90s: an old-fashioned cavalry-and-Indian western, not so very different from the kind John Ford and many others used to turn out regularly. All the classic elements are here: a harshly beautiful Southwestern landscape; the eponymous warrior chieftain (Wes Studi), noble, misused and off the reservation because promises have been broken; an idealistic young officer (Jason Patric) who respects his enemy; and a greenhorn (Matt Damon) who wants to learn more about him; an honorable general (Gene Hackman) and a bloody-minded one (Kevin Tighe). There's even a grizzled...
...older picture did in straightening and strengthening the plot -- about a besieged fort, the ill-timed attempt of the commandant's daughter to join her father there and the anarchy that follows his surrender. Even Magua, the treacherous Indian villain of the piece, played with deadly relish by Wes Studi, is given a good motive for his dastardliness, the dignity of his otherness and even allowed a nanosecond of pity for one of his victims. Above all Mann has seen to it that something spooky, suspenseful or just plain action packed happens every five minutes. In the process...
...Italian Discovery of America During World War I--with Daniela Rossini, Deptartimento Studi Americani, Universita degli Studi di Roma. In Boylston Hall...