Word: complexity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...capture emotion at its most intense and set it to a beautiful yet powerful melody. Critically lauded but largely commercially underappreciated, Mann's music is very album-oriented, with no one song standing out as an obvious "single." Rather, all of the songs fit together to form the complex latticework of emotions that runs throughout Bachelor...
...Michael Penn is Sean's older brother. Don't hold it against him. On MP4, his latest album, Penn navigates through a complex web of emotion set against a backdrop of pop. Steeped in Beatles influence, Penn churns out one catchy tune after another, each one packing more ideas than some artists cover in an entire album...
...Egoyan released his first feature film, Next of Kin, which received funding from both the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council. The complex story deals with a disillusioned young man who, while undergoing video therapy with his parents, sees a tape of an Armenian family wracked with guilt over giving up their son to a foster home years ago. The protagonist, Peter, craves a new role in life, so he presents himself to the family as their long-lost son, an act that leads to dark visions concerning cultural displacement and the line between role-playing and reality...
...Egoyan began to explore the complex web of human relationships, as well as the dark secrets lurking behind those relationships, in two particularly disconcerting films: The Adjuster in 1992 and Exotica, a twisty thriller that many view as his breakthrough, in 1994. Neither film should be watched with the expectation of a story that moves fluidly from point A to point B. Egoyan's focus is on the complex connections between his characters, and thus, the normal conventions of time and structure take a backseat to this desire. "I wanted to make a film about believable people doing believable things...
...Keeping young Iranians on board for a patient chiseling away at the grip of the mullahs has proved a major challenge for the reformists, particularly after last summer's protests showed their mounting impatience. But the complex distributions of power and repressive instincts of the conservatives prescribe a gradualist approach among reformists. "If Iran is to complete the dizzying road from theocracy to democracy," says MacLeod, "reformers must find a way to speak to the Internet generation as well as to older Iranians who feel more comfortable with Islamic traditions and like to be assured that the reform movement remains...