Word: transients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rather than basking in transient glamour, the Coens have focused on making films. And why not? They may be the most talented team working today. A string of successes including the wild "Raising Arizona," the brilliant "Miller's Crossing" and the endearing "Barton Fink" ended recently with a near miss, "The Hudsucker Proxy." After that film, which required a huge budget (by Coen standards) and lots of sound stage shooting, it is no wonder that they opted for a smaller film like "Fargo...
...David Mamet are proof. But Death of a Salesman, with its focus on idealism, fails to address the core concerns of an increasingly skeptical world that has already learned from Willy's lesson. Idealism is not a universal frailty like Othello's jealousy or Hamlet's indecision, but a transient societal attitude, and one that is not pervasive today. Those who do not agree will probably enjoy the show...
Whether economics or a recovery of good taste lies behind this dispute, the news for book lovers may be good. Fewer bogus novels by transient celebrities may free up some contracts for actual writers, a few of whom may eventually become big names. That, come to think of it, is how this season's hottest literary celebrity, Jane Austen, got her start...
Current tenants will be replaced by students, visiting scholars and "transient yuppies" who have no interest in the larger Cambridge community, according to Preston...
...Rent control guaranteed votes from tenants and the more transient elements of the population. But now that it has been lifted, we're seeing a major realignment," Maddox said...