Word: understandings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...broods on hisown climb to success. Master builder Solness' wife, played by Sharon Scruggs, successfully brings his overwhelming, depressing perspective into relief, showing her more personable side only away from his presence. Solness believes thathe has willed all his luck, but when we see that he does not even understand his own wife, the young visitor Hilde Wangel, spunkily played by Kristin Flanders, becomes the cipher through which the audience understands the play. Hilde is young and sensible, pretty and plucky (Solness enunciates "Hilde" like a connoisseur of youth)--without her coloring, The Master Builder could easily be a bore...
...help us understand the deep content of the movie, director/producer/co-writer Hugh Wilson (First Wives Club) decides to simplify everything. According to Blast, 1962 is no match for 1997's fast lane. The vast differences are represented by Brendan Fraser's wide-eyed Adam and Alicia Silverstone's street-wise Eve, the names being yet another insult to our intelligence...
...Harvard is old. Older than plastic. Older than the lightbulb. Older than America. It is older than I can understand. "The stock of the Puritans," as the Alma Mater goes. Three hundred and fifty years of history, of people and buildings and dust is a lot to have to deal with. But for all that cumulative experience, Harvard is really only as old as the people who actually inhabit it--they just have the opportunity to listen to the dead. The Widener approach--with a memorial room open for about five non-consecutive hours a day and only made...
Harvard is old. Older than plastic. Older than the lightbulb. Older than America. It is older than I can understand. "The stock of the Puritans," as the Alma Mater goes. Three hundred and fifty years of history, of people and buildings and dust is a lot to have to deal with. But for all that cumulative experience, Harvard is really only as old as the people who actually inhabit it--they just have the opportunity to listen to the dead. The Widener approach--with a memorial room open for about five non-consecutive hours a day and only made...
...have standards that we understand and people don't do that," he said...