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Some rich candidates, mindful of appearing immodest or undemocratic, claim to be using their personal funds mostly as a start-up or back-up resource. Castro, Fisher and several other primary victors say they will finance the later stages of their campaigns through fund-raising efforts. Colorado's Benson claims to be using his own funds largely as seed money: "I've got to have $100,000 of my own," he says, "before I can ask people...
Frederico Fellini has said in several interviews that he considered each of his stories, that is, each of his movies, a period of his life. Identifying so completely with his art, he considered any criticism of his work to be unsuitable and immodest, because he felt judged as a person. Essentially, he was not fond of film criticism. But, in doing what a film critic must do, I must say that Fellini films are not for everyone. Fellini's style is highly original and daring, but often bizarre, and he does a masterful job of making his audience uncomfortable, making...
...movie simply needed my clout to get it made," Spielberg says, and he is not being immodest. Since no filmmaker has a track record like his, none has his power to encourage both a studio and the young mass audience to take a risk on a movie the subject of which is inherently repellent, not to say terrifying...
...annual testosterone overdose. Freely and fondly adapting Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel, English filmmaker Sally Potter brings to life a buoyant fantasy world. She imparts a brisk, lush post-modernism to a fable that scans four centuries. But Potter's real triumph is in her pert dressing of an immodest proposal. To be fully human, Orlando says, is to go civilization one better: to be man, then woman, then a blend of the best of both genders. To the battle of the sexes, androgyny is the answer supplied by both Potter and Woolf. "In so many ways," the director says...
...border post, the Iranian troops carefully search each vehicle for weapons -- Tehran insists that Kurdish fighters will find no haven in Iran -- as well as articles offensive to strict Islamic sensibilities. Pop-music tapes, for example, are forbidden, as is immodest dress. One woman, about to drive her Volkswagen up to the checkpoint, frantically tied a scarf over her hair but still stood out in a short skirt and knitted leggings. She managed to get through the checkpoint, but not before giving away her collection of tapes...