Word: written
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...written statement in the program, Offner noted the irony in awarding a peace award to "a group that rallies...loudly against low-wage labor...
...would we be if we could have that time and energy back? My friends and I and, according to a statistic I've heard, the 90 percent of fifth grade girls who diet? I'm not saying we would've written the great American novel--although it's rather nice to think so. It's just that it's such a waste, such a terrible waste. We are, for the most part, no fatter or thinner than we were when we started out, despite our neurotic attention to the matter. We may gain and lose a little weight here...
...chain's losses in sales and stock price. Some might find this distinction tenuous, but the First Amendment places strict requirements on libel suits that challenge a story's truth or falsehood. To tie the information presented in a story to the method in which the story was written, in the words of the appeals court, would represent an "end-run" around existing doctrines of press freedoms...
...large scale retreading of the same dramatic ground Kellerman mapped so clearly last year. Sam Shepard is not David Mamet. He isn't able to maintain the same level of unshaking intensity that Mamet can create in his plays. Running at nearly three hours, Simpatico as a written work feels rough in places, as though Shepard is simply marking time between the dramatic flashpoints of his play. Kellerman seems uncertain what to do with this between time, with the unfolding of character histories and endless plot complications. At times the dialogue almost becomes a burden to the play, an interruption...
...Pictures, though they may be worth a thousand words, can't provide the precision of expression that is offered by the written word, a precision that Vonnegut exploited with mastery. Actors, delivering the material in a drastically reduced number of lines in the limited span of a two hour movie, can never hope to match the brilliance of Vonnegut's prose. It's futile to even...