Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Radcliffe Institute's mission to study "women, gender and society" may surely result in the production of worthwhile scholarship. It may also result in an outpouring of Leftist, post-modern nonsense. Only time will tell, but surely our enthusiasm must be mitigated when we consider the unfortunate track record of gender studies...
...Mumford, writer/director/producer Lawrence Kasdan attempts to tell the tale of Doctor Mumford (Loren Dean) and the wide variety of patients and personas that he encounters through his small town practice. The dominant flaw of the film is Kasdan's unparalleled ability to get sidetracked. Perhaps he was distracted by episodes of America's Most Wanted, perhaps by cheesy soap operas, or maybe even by an episode of Judge Judy. The only word that sufficiently describes the plot of Mumford, and I'll I say it three times, is random, random, random...
...tried to tell a true story in this movie...
Perhaps this tendency of the American Self evidences itself nowhere more clearly than in environmentalist literature and eco-criticism. It wasn't narcissism but selflessness--in the most authentic sense of the term, the vanishing of the self--that led Thoreau to tell us about his life in the woods: it was his conviction that individual choices possess some kind of cosmic exemplary significance. Walden is a sort of spiritual biography of man in Nature, told through Thoreau's experience in the woods. The notion is that experience is transcendent of the personal, and indexes the general...
...told me I had a nice smile," Dan Drummond says, teasing about knowing when not to miss an opportunity. Together, they tell the story of their first date, to a football game in which a joint advisee played...