Word: recurring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Emmerich made his early films in Germany--and in English, for the world market. In 1989, after a clever Spielberg-rip-off kids' fantasy (Making Contact) and a comedy about moviemaking (Ghost Chase), he directed Moon 44, an outer-space Dirty Dozen with a story line that would recur in ID4: for a desperate space battle, a former combat pilot must assemble a ragtag band of flyers, including a loser with heroically suicidal tendencies. Devlin played the computer-nerdy male ingenue; after Moon 44, he and the director became filmmaking partners...
...extremes of formal perfection from a narrow range of motifs. This perfection is never frozen: it always contains some organic character, an affinity to life and therefore to change. "I never seek what to make a pure or abstract form," Brancusi said. "Timelessness,'' "wholeness,'' "essence,'' "aliveness": such words inescapably recur in what has been written about him over the past 70 or 80 years. They are well-worn tokens, rubbed smooth by use, but you can't visit the Brancusi retrospective that is now in its last weeks at the Philadelphia Museum of Art without feeling how his work revives...
...Crimson should be commended for describing the advances made by Brian Blais and Ed Smith over the last two semesters to produce better accountability in the Committee Fund. These problems will not recur. Again, though, these problems from previous councils do not in any way affect the grant allocations. --Stephen Weinberg, '99, Grants Secretary, Finance Committee
...Crimson editorial written Saturday November 21, 1925 proclaimed that "certain phenomena recur so regularly and impressively that they become institutions: the Boston Transcript, the equinox, presidential elections, and Harvard-Yale football game...
...several of these miniature movies, familiar motifs recur . Even independent films can be dependent on trends...