Word: vies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while clearly interested ahead of time in the art involved in setting up an exhibit in a museum, Rabinowitch endows each piece with enough enduring personality to deserve lingering attention. Here sits one, a misshapen manhole or new-fangled stop-watch, whose scratches and smoothness vie with the bold, geometric chords that stretch across its center. There sits another, a pueblo for dormice, whose precise measurements and truncated top make one wonder what is suggested or what might possibly be missing...
Independence Day is, of course, a blockbuster from Hollywood. It isn't being shown here, yet its promise overwhelms the presence of many intimate films from other countries. France, for example, makes beguiling little conversation pieces, like Ridicule and Comment je me suis dispute (ma vie sexuelle), a three-hour talkathon that plays like six consecutive episodes of a French Friends. Iran, of all places, is the hot new movie culture--Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Gabbeh registered as the festival's most folk-artful charmer--while the once estimable cinemas of Japan, Eastern Europe and Latin America have gone into hibernation...
...Laura Ingalls Wilder shows how the syllabus is not strictly high culture," Vie-Carpenter says. "I read her when...
...think Dr. Bruzelius's point is that we read about motherhood in a lot more ways then we notice," Vie-Carpenter says...
...Sometimes the guys will say something I haven't even thought of," says Vie-Carpenter. "It's important to keep some sort of perspective and not get tied up in the femaleness...