Word: particularity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Where this particular franchise is concerned, it’s not the filmmakers who have the credibility. It’s Jigsaw. Nowhere in “Saw” is there one shred of doubt that every single one of Jigsaw’s victims deserves what he gets. We don’t delight in their distress per se, but there is a wholesome schadenfreude in seeing the guilty squirm...
...question repeatedly raised was whether cosmopolitan moments—in particular climate change—will actually catalyze these possibilities for new action...
...years later. “I wanted the challenge of verisimilitude,” Hannah says. “There is something in me that wanted to make narrative paintings, which of course abstract does not offer.” Hannah cites the narratives of novelist Graham Greene as particular sources of inspiration for his paintings. “[Greene] creates an emotional and psychological terrain that is recognizable no matter where his books are set,” Hannah says. “I set out to do something similar, to create a world that can encompass many variables...
...from public service of that nature.RR: James Bond or Jason Bourne?SAT: Bourne—Matt Damon’s better looking.RR: What’s it like being in a play with all these assassins?SAT: I don’t trust anybody in the room.RR: Anyone in particular you’re afraid of?SAT: I’ve got my eye on Alison. I watch my back when she’s around.Alison H. Rich ’09RR: Do you play a female assassin?AHR: No, I play a male assassin.RR: Oh, what?...
...Confidence is critical to economies, and to financial companies and markets in particular," Miller says. "And if getting together to discuss the situation and making cooperative statements promising to reverse the recent spiral of negativity with stability can help restore confidence, then the effort is probably worth it. But someone as smart as Sarkozy knows the effort to get an American President to submit a pillar of his economy to outside regulators just isn't going to happen...