Word: although
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Although the films deal with such diverse subjects as pet cemeteries (Gates of Heaven, 1978), Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time, 1992) and an autistic professor designer of human slaughterhouses (Stairway to Heaven, 1998), certain themes appear repeatedly, emerging from the tightly woven web of humor, philosophy and idiosyncrasy that is Morris' signature like ghosts of questions past, resurrected and back for more...
Smith's announcement is not unexpected: He told Rudenstine he was contemplating a resignation as early as 1997, although the president persuaded him to remain in office until the end of the University's Capital Campaign...
...This is not to say that Errol Morris has entirely given up on truth, although his views on the matter are notably more complex than those of most documentarians. "It seems a very odd conceit that film itself is a vehicle of truth, per se. It can be, but truth isn't something that's served on a platter. To me, truth is a linguistic kind of thing." As a result, he rejects the traditionally dichotomous relationship between documentary and feature filmmaking...
...Although the action of the film is Fred's story, his "rise" to being a successful execution technologist and his "fall" to being discredited, poor, and alone, the force at work the surface is thematic examination of the man's character, and what that character represents in a broader context. "I think the central idea is influenced by Nabokov, who probably more than anyone else conceived this idea of the self-deceived, clueless narrator. Think of Pale Fire and Lolita. These are narrators who have no idea whatsoever of what's going on. Fred is certainly an example of that...
...raised about the Utah plant, which stands roughly 50 miles from Salt Lake City. "There's a long-standing argument between the government and people who work in the Tooele facility over how safe it is," says TIME Washington correspondent Mark Thompson. "And it's plain to everyone that although the amounts of sarin [a nerve gas] and other chemicals disgorged into the air are very low, they're not zero." The Army responded to Harris's claims with a promise of a complete investigation and a statement insisting they will "continue to provide maximum protection to human health...