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...most exciting foreign movie industries of the past few decades have been Hong Kong and India. While European filmmakers went inwardly minimalist, those teeming Asian cinemas generated robust entertainment of pinwheeling action and violence (Hong Kong) and unabashed sentiment and music (Bollywood). Different in temperament, but alike in their vigor and brio, they were both exotic and oddly familiar to their American admirers. We realized that the radiant assurance of old-Hollywood movies hadn't died, it had just been reincarnated abroad...
...would make great elevator music. The undifferentiated wash of recycled rock tropes is the perfect soundtrack to awkward encounters in enclosed spaces. The music sounds like it should back The Weather Channel’s 4:08 weather update from Hell. The song-writing has none of the same vigor that made the band’s pre-millennial work so bracing. The ballad-esque “Street of Dreams” begins like the lush “November Rain” from “Use Your Illusion I”—a few lines...
...most widely recognized academic scholarships in the world, provides an all-expenses paid academic experience at the University of Oxford in England. The criteria for selection include “high academic achievement, integrity of character, a spirit of unselfishness, respect for others potential for leadership, and physical vigor,” according to the scholarship’s Web site. Snider, a resident of Friendswood, Texas and a senior in Mather House, is studying biological anthropology. She said her particular interests lie in the interactions between cultural beliefs and scientific and medical practice. According to Snider...
...national standards for the rest of the Allston project. “This is the leadership that Harvard needs to take forward,” Sharett said. “I think the world has been waiting for North America to put the huge amount of intellectual strength and vigor behind developing some of these things...
...Finding Neverland to The Kite Runner--does much better when he has no moral in tow; he can concentrate on shepherding the second-unit stunt work and setting a tempo of nearly nonstop suspense. What's lost in reverberations from the series' blithe old movies is gained in daredevil vigor...