Word: franks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie is rife with unusually frank love scenes; Jordan says it's no coincidence that his film, produced independently in the U.K., was made wholly outside the Hollywood studio system: "The End of the Affair is one of the most frankly erotic books ever written. I wanted to make my film's [sex scenes] as truly as the book does. When I see sex scenes between Hollywood actors, they're always terribly violent. They're always shoving each other's head against the wall, or ripping up a table full of crockery and throwing the girl down...
Harvard coach Frank Sullivan will also need to get a more consistent game-long effort out of his team than he has in recent outings. In its past two contests, the Crimson have turned in two spectacular 50-point second half showings, but only after getting off to dismally slow starts in the first half...
...join the ranks of the paid masses, it becomes painfully obvious that the system that she so desperately wants to enter is also the cause of her misery. Directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (La Promesse) pull no punches in their commentary. It is not political, but in their frank, documentary-influenced auteurism, simply presented for evaluation. After viewing the debased actions to which the principle characters are reduced, the only conclusion is to condemn the establishment of work as the cause of Rosetta's suffering...
...images. Similarly, no music accompanies the narrative to underscore the tension and wrenching moments; all we are given is the sound of gravelly footsteps, running water and the other minutiae. The mundane sounds pervade Rosetta's microcosm, because, being unemployed, that's all she has. Because the presentation is frank and honest, and devoid of artifice, we realize that this is a natural, unromanticized depiction of life experienced by society's "other half...
...Coach Frank Haggerty, entering his 18th season at the helm, understands that the expected success of this year's team is by no means guaranteed. "As Niels Bohr discovered, predictions are very difficult, especially when it comes to the future," Haggerty said. "The possibilities are very good. We could have a very powerful team, but right now we don't. We have to work hard and put forth the effort...