Word: fates
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...drawn toward." But, I suggest to him, it's more than that; it's a specific, homesick subgenre of loneliness. Captain Miller in Saving Private Ryan, Jim Lovell in Apollo 13, Hanks' man-children in Forrest Gump and Big and even Toy Story--all share one universally sympathetic struggle: fate blows them off course, across oceans and space and time, and they just want to go home...
...Despite these flaws, Gurianova succeeds in providing a glimpse into the life of an artist who continually sought new forms and new means of expression in her work. She makes the important point that Rozanova's career "reflects in miniature the fate of the early Russian avant-garde, which was driven by an inexorable and constant striving for renewal and a denial of previous achievements...
...wispy plot summary I just gave you covers about 10 minutes of the film. Allen begins with a concept and then uses his 90-minute movies to explore every possible angle of it. In this case, the Winklers ride the wave of Allen's fantasies - extremely random circumstances of fate throw their lives into disarray constantly, but we get the feeling that it's Woody playfully throwing ideas around as to actually crafting character arcs. The script seems to pose questions: What happens if the Winklers struck it rich? What happens to people when they achieve their dreams? Because...
...meeting with his father, the Washington Post pushed the issue to the side to make space for a lead article on Ethiopia's striking famine. But these attempts to balance the news of children dying at a rate of a dozen a day in some Ethiopian towns with the fate of a cute six-year-old are too rare...
...this a sign of things to come in the Internet age? Two multimedia monoliths, Time Warner and Disney, are playing a high-stakes tug-of-war, not only putting the immediate fate of one TV network's programming at risk, but also raising questions about the shape of a totally web-based news and information future. After time ran out on their most recent usage agreement, Time Warner Cable and Disney arrived at an impasse Monday; Time Warner then called Disney's bluff, pulling the Mouse's ABC network from its programming roster. Time Warner Cable customers hoping to tune...