Word: taints
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...Dunkirk that lasts almost five minutes. The camera weaves in and out of the carnage and confusion on the beach—as well as in and out of Robbie’s perspective—at the stirring moment of British retreat. The last few minutes, however, taint what had been a poignant film adaptation up to that point. The revelatory final scene is simply a diluted version of the novel. Ironically, it is the film’s devotion to the text that causes it to miss the text’s most crucial aspect: self-reflexivity. With...
...democracy protests escalated in Beijing, Chen joined other expatriate Chinese students in their own demonstrations. After earning his Ph.D. in genetics, he stayed in Japan, developing biotech products for Japanese companies. But three years ago, Chen decided that he, too, should profit from China's economic boom. The possible taint of his Tiananmen activism had worn off; plenty of other former protesters were now striking it rich back home. Today, Chen helms a consulting company that helps Japanese pharmaceutical firms conduct clinical trials in China. "Without us, Japanese companies would be helpless," he says. "They don't know how business...
...taint of talkiness Quality, of course, is in the eye of the beholder - as is the very meaning of culture. The term originally referred to the growing of things, as in agriculture. Eventually it came to embrace the cultivation of art, music, poetry and other "high-culture" pursuits of a high-minded élite. In modern times, anthropologists and sociologists have broadened the term to embrace the "low-culture" enthusiasms of the masses, as well as caste systems, burial customs and other behavior...
...film Just Like Heaven starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo.) "An hour and a half later, they are sitting at dinner, and some are agreeing while others are disagreeing." France today can make slick, highly commercial movies - Amélie, Brotherhood of the Wolf - but for many foreigners the taint of talkiness lingers...
Much has changed since that dark moment in history, but modern Turkey, beholden as it is to the Young Turk perpetrators and in spite of the light of historical perspective, still refuses to admit the taint on its history and clings to dramatic understatements of the death toll. Turkey cannot continue to deliberately avoid dealing with the disturbing facts of its history. Other countries have stared their genocidal demons in the face, and the fact that they have done so is a sign that they have moved past a dark era in their history...