Word: whether
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must choose whether we treasure our leisure so much that we will rest content with hasty half-truths. When it comes to making only the right sort of generalizations, it is up to us whether to behave more like academics or TV pundits...
...troops--more, not fewer, since the bombing began--still vigorously cleansing Kosovo. But refugees report that Serbian soldiers have shed their uniforms to patrol the roads on stolen tractors, disguising themselves as civilian convoys. An Apache pilot will be hard pressed to make the right call on whether to strike a convoy that could contain the oppressor or the oppressed. A footnote: as more Apaches arrive, the number of G.I.s in Albania, 350 a month ago, will soon grow to more than...
...extraterrestrial life exists. This gets the attention of government operatives, who proceed to hunt him down (it's kind of like The X-Files, except in this case one of the operatives is wrestler Hollywood Hogan). Not only must Gonzo flee the men in black, he also must decide whether to board the mother ship and join his family or stay on earth with his Muppet friends...
...Buzz Well, any movie containing two incredibly gorgeous men can expect to do well in the box-office whether it's any good or not. Two hours of gazing at Brad Pitt and Jared Leto is reward enough for many young ladies. However, from the standpoint of critics, I predict mixed reviews, some praising its original and harsh social critique while others are disturbed by its perhaps unnecessarily grim and graphic depiction of the fight scenes...
...found melodramatic, a rocky touch-down. Of course, as Hitchcock of all people has said, one person's melodrama is another's drama, and for many the ending will fit just right. Yet it is difficult to say which of the two main concluding directorial decisions enervate more or whether they do at all. One is honest and realist and therefore acceptable, consistent; the other more of a clumsy attempt at social comment an universalizing. But the artifice of almost any ending might have grated (shots of a bus ride away from Lille? Pious camera movements heavenwards...