Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their best, Hollywood's interpretations of the Great Beyond are highly personal. In making Defending Your Life, a sophisticated satire about Judgment Day, director Albert Brooks was inspired by the death of his father when the director was 11 years old. Unpersuaded that the dead return to earth, Brooks puts his main characters on a linear trajectory into the unknown. Brooks is moved by the 20 letters a week he receives from dying people uplifted by the film. "It's not a hospice cocktail," he quips, "but close...
...Teammate Albert Chang joined Zimmerman on the EITA All-Star team. A native of Calgary, Alberta, Chang is currently ranked 30th in the nation, having completed the season with a 17-6 overall mark, 7-2 EITA...
Although Harvard has been eliminated from team competition, the Crimson will compete in both the NCAA singles and doubles championships, which commence Tuesday. The Crimson's doubles tandem of Michael Shyjan and Michael Zimmerman will participate in the doubles tourney, and Zimmerman and Albert Chang will both play in the singles competition. Shyjan was awarded an alternate spot for the singles championship, and Chang and Brent LaTanzi are alternates for the doubles championship...
ANOTHER TIME. Albert Finney revives his London triumph in Ronald Harwood's drama about a South African pianist as Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe opens a sumptuous new $8 million theater. But the company members, most of them much younger than Finney, are at a loss playing relatives a generation older...
...when you have seen the rhetoric of Manifest Destiny in the paintings of, say, Albert Bierstadt -- the tiny wagons advancing into those golden floods of light from the westering sun, the absence of opposing Indians, the implicit approval of Jehovah himself -- you still have to decide how good they are as art. This is why the dubious orthodoxy of art-historical deconstruction is so popular. It aborts the problem by collapsing everything into ideology and fatuously claiming that the idea of "quality" is either meaningless or oppressive. It appeals to sanctimony and makes the stuff easy to teach. It lets...