Word: forgetable
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...unbelievable and unexpected day, and I'll never forget it," Damon told The Crimson. He said this was his first time attending Cultural Rhythms...
...proved wrong. They had spent months trying to plug the stature gap and build an image of Bush as a candidate who could unite the party--and then they were blindsided by a Republican at war with its leaders. At that meeting, Bush's team realized he had to forget his promises to run a "hopeful and optimistic and very positive" campaign--promises that had been easy to make last fall, when he seemed to be waltzing unopposed to the nomination. Bush agreed to do whatever it would take to win. And in South Carolina, "whatever it takes...
...forget: a lot of those directors didn't cut their movies. They'd do a three day thing with the editor, and then on to the next movie, and the producers and studios would cut them. That we've changed. We edit our own films, for the most part. There are some people that don't, but I certainly do. And I'm also involved with the Director's Guild (chairman of the Creative Rights Committee), and one of the things we're making directors do is exercise their creative rights...
...Most of all, though, there's the impossibly supple jazz. Every word in the film is sung. Every word: both the reliable arias of love and the tiny trivial moments that most musicals always forget. There's a great moment when a character is interrupted mid-sentence by a man asking directions--in tune, of course, with the jaunty melody. The effect is startling and a little humorous at first, but after a while you forget the novelty. Instead, you have the majesty of a truly great film score, with undulating chords that shimmer gloriously...
...India's general direction. India reciprocates with bomb test-runs of its own and with diplomatic sneers. The bomb is the menacing and distracting backdrop for all the personal problems the twentysomething characters of Moth Smoke have to face. ("Nothing like nuclear escalation," says one character, "to help you forget your problems.") The children of soldiers and entrepreneurs, they struggle with politics, as well as with the usual generational issues: finding a place in their fathers' and mothers' societies, finding security, finding love...