Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...saga remains a tale of two cities. In London last week Princess Diana was the renewed subject of tabloid headlines as the latest edition of a biography went on sale--an autobiography, it turns out, offering candid and often biting descriptions of her life with the royals, as divulged by her collaborator Andrew Morton. The Windsors and the Spencers were appalled, as were the British media. But however scandalized the public may have been over Morton's breach of Diana's confidence, the book flew out of London stores. In Paris there was no room for soap opera or sentiment...
...peace, Gulliver and The King and I; Ice Age meets New Age--Seven Years in Tibet cannily has it all. Screenwriter Becky Johnston (The Prince of Tides) was drawn to the subject because "like most baby boomers, I went through a period of spiritual crisis, examining other faiths. I was always interested in studying Buddhism because it's more than a religion, it's a philosophy." Her script is torn neatly in two, between the notion of conflict, which drives Hollywood movies, and the Buddhist sense of reconciliation and liberation. It is a Western film that goes East for answers...
Tibet, as viewers of awards shows well know, has been the subject of some interest in the celebrity community, but Pitt says he received no phone calls from colleagues like Gere or Steven Seagal--recently revealed to be the reincarnation of a particularly revered lama--worrying about how his film would portray key moments in the Dalai Lama's life. Pitt himself is not a particularly spiritual person. "I've always paid attention to religion," he says, "because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any of them. I think there...
...Going out and teaching a subject, or learning about the social sciences by doing social service projects...is often an effective form of pedagogy," Wofford said...
...these portraits, the thin, careful application of color lyrically suggests the vulnerability and distance of his subject. Here, unlike in his early self-portraits where style and expression seemed at odds, Picasso seamlessly reconciles his painterly means with the work's emotional content and atmosphere...