Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This film succeeds because, like all good literature, it tells the truth. Despite the fact the film is 27 years old, it accurately portrays the anxiety and revelation of young love and post-graduate life. Unlike 1967, though, we no longer wear thin ties and (except at Harvard) very few wait until after college graduation to lose their virginity...
...other pests; workers in masks and gloves stack the dead as chunks of rotting chordwood in loose piles. Beyond the dead, upon the roads and grassy fields are the living. Of course they can hardly be called such as most of them appear to be human skeletons shrouded in thin layers of skin and brightly colored clothing. Tragically these scenes are reminiscent of other scenes related by American GIS liberating the concentration camps in 1945 at the end of the Second World War. Yet this is not Europe. This is Rwanda...
...tall, pencil-thin general looks like a man in total control. Though Vice President and Defense Minister Paul Kagame is trading his uniform for suit and tie, no one doubts that the 37-year-old commander of the Rwandan Patriotic Front wields the real power in his homeland. "This country needs to move," he says. "Someone must give it direction...
...said that the priority is to find a new dean before Carnesale gets stretched too thin filling both posts...
...Hollywood, he notes that "it must have a birthrate only slightly above Vatican City"s ." Entering the ocean near Santa Monica "was like stepping into the small tentacle tips of a monstrous octopus." To Theroux, "every third wave rolled in like an arched emerald wall, rearing up with a thin white crest -- the oceanic equivalent of a cobra spreading its hood, and nearly as un-nerving...