Word: versa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...director Curtis Hanson portrays the cool, brutal world of Hollywood glam and corrupt police in '50s Los Angeles with all its gradations of questionable ethics. Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe turn in fine performances that give us two different approaches to policing, thinking first and hitting later, or vice versa. A reptilian James Cromwell and slick Kevin Spacey round out a fine cast and a finer tale. Could this be an Oscar contender? I'm not a betting man. --Nicolas R. Rapold...
...Ellison, for example, is primarily studied as "a black author." Similar logic applies to race: racial constructs--such as whiteness and blackness--only exist in contrast to one another, so to study black disadvantage in America, for example, is also to study white privilege in this country--and vice versa...
...Zane). DiCaprio has a smooth, winsome beauty, and Winslet, who at first seems bulky beside him, comes to look ravishingly ravaged by the climax. Everyone else is a caricature of class, designed only to illustrate a predictable prejudice: that the first-class passengers are third-class people, and vice versa...
...decade, artists have been using scientific images such as anatomical models (Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith), and scientific specimens (Damien Hirst, Annette Messager). But Avery is unusual in bringing medicine itself--not simply a representation of medicine--into the museum. The literalness of translating medicine in to art (and vice-versa) in this exhibit distinguishes it from other such pieces...
People who wear boxers should be happy enough with their choice of underwear and should not feel the need to put down those who choose briefs and vice-versa. Each side must understand that there are positives and negatives for each type of undergarment and that two rational people can arrive at different conclusions. I will lay out the issues, and hope that strident proponents on both sides will reconsider laying down their arms...