Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lifestyle in Cape Town. Although Coetzee does not overtly mention the proceedings of the TRC, he alludes to them through Luries appearance before a university disciplinary committee. While Lurie is prepared to admit his guilt in abusing his position of authority by coercing the young student into a sexual relationship with him, that is as far as he will go. He refuses to make the hollow gesture of publishing an apology to maintain his position at the university. Aimless after his resignation, he decides to visit his daughter Lucy. She lives by herself on an isolated smallholding in the Eastern...
...been a while since a Woody Allen film evoked anything like raw emotion. His 1996 movie musical Everyone Says I Love You had its characters spinning in a delightful tizzy reminiscent of golden age Hollywood, but there wasnt a believable human relationship in it. His last two films, Celebrity and Deconstructing Harry, launched some dead-on potshots at the empty hysteria of modern life, but they ultimately amounted to very good one-line jokes, prompting unfair reflection that Allen had become too bitter and insular for his own good...
...many Allen protagonists. Emmets comic/pathetic exploits are governed by the cadences of jazz, which has always been a background presence in Allens movies but takes center stage here. Although his personal life is an unstable mess and his treatment of women is worse than sub-par, Emmet Rays relationship with his musicand with his female musesburns with open-hearted sincerity. Though the loose series of vignettes that make up Sweet and Lowdown cohere less than perfectly, the directors affection for his subject is obvious and catching...
...almost too busy to foster an intimate relationship. "I went out with a girl from B.C., who works in Montpelier, Vermont, now. And I was with another girl from Newbury College for one and a half years," he said. "But you have to have time, which is impossible if you're always working. And you have to be close to them, all the time, or they're going to leave." He broke into English to explain, "It's like a flower. If you don't put water on it, it gets...
...School will not accept gifts from donors for areas where KSG has no institutional expertise or where the program funded by the gift has no relationship to its mission," Nye wrote in an e-mail message...