Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Coalition members, the events are to protest China's human rights abuses and its suppression of freedom in Tibet, Taiwan and mainland China...
Seven Years in Tibet...
...semi-successful, though gorgeous, epic gives much-needed visibility to the tragic modern history of Tibet, but opts for glossy formulaic packaging over genuine emotion, even in the central relationship between Brad Pitt's Austrian mountaineer and the young Dalai Lama. Pitt never frees us from the sensation that he's out of place--a Hollywood heartthrob trying to look spiritual. In fact, the film actually becomes more dramatically compelling as Pitt's character fades in prominence, though it's amusing to watch his arrogant narcissism get deflated. --Lynn...
...remarking, "Marv Albert's toupee falls off during sex, and the country goes crazy." But tabloidism isn't even limited to the sleaze factor. In that very same Newsweek, the story on Jiang features a half-page photo of the opening of Brad Pitt's new movie about Tibet, and includes the following in its two-page spread: "Beyond the atmospherics, the two sides [the U.S. and China] have serious business to do," and finishes the thought in a single following sentence...
Method, not message is the issue--for the message is clear. Jiang is without question implicated in the large-scale violations of human rights within his country. He is implicated in the jailing of political dissidents, in the harsh and arbitrary application of capital punishment, in the subjugation of Tibet, in the construction and maintaining of a vast system of prison labor camps comparable to some of the worst years of the Soviet gulag. He is one of the most inappropriate guests in all of Harvard's past to speak in Sanders Theatre...