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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three separate places to get a loan, invest in the stock market and buy insurance, rather than do all of his banking under the same roof. Visiting three different financial institutions is not an inconvenience to your run-of-the-mill investor. The vast majority of people use banks for modest loans, mortgages and various kinds of insurance. They don't need mega-banks with gross incomes larger than that of most countries...
...book that can't be made into a movie. "You want a $100 million blockbuster," he's saying right now. "Go ahead. Give it your best shot, suckers." He's walking around with $10 million in his pocket--while we're still trying to deconstruct Clarice's utensil use as she chows on steamed brains. We got burned, big time...
...tapestry exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Oct. 22,1999-Jan. 30, 2000) is either a contradiction in terms or a play on words. The show brings together modern tapestries by six contemporary artists--Murray Walker, Lilian Tyrrell, Leon Golub, Edward Derwent, Wojciech Jaskolka, and Jorge Pardo--who use the antiquated medium of tapestry-making as a vehicle for social commentary. Although criticisms of modern society is touted as the exhibition's concept, the show in reality places more emphasis on 'descent' rather than 'dissent'--more preoccupied with showcasing the at times overly-forced geneology connecting these modern tapestries...
...Other movies have also taken a humorous angle with the Holocaust, why use humor to portray such a tragic event? What about the inevitable comparisons to Life is Beautiful...
...creative use of space and the smaller dimensions of the Loeb Experimental Theater also make this production seem larger than life. Montel cleverly utilizes the different levels of the stage and the concept of distance to vary the intimacy of each scene. Mellow musical interludes provide for subtle scene transitions...