"Creators are now dramatizing what people were already thinking about."
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His speeches, blunt and workmanlike, depend upon dramatizing social statistics.
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Dramatizing these events makes them seem isolated — a bad-apples incident.
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But people's self-dramatizing behavior does not necessarily make them interesting.
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A queen, I mean, and not just of the self-dramatizing type.
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It's a way of dramatizing or narrating or unpacking what that might be.
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When it comes to the dramatizing of claustrophobia, Maoz is in his element.
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It always seems to be reduced to daddy complexes or dramatizing certain things.
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And in expanding and dramatizing the story, not every choice is equally successful.
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If you can catch that pressure, you'll find a way of dramatizing it.
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Connell and Marianne are self-dramatizing and prone to putting themselves in terrible situations.
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Porter still wrote in a revue style where the characters were hardly worth dramatizing.
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Graham would later make a video dramatizing all the ways to destroy a cellphone.
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All of the usual caveats about fictional TV shows over-simplifying and over-dramatizing apply.
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Somehow, when you're dramatizing the existence of everything, the emergence of bacteria becomes strangely inspiring.
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Dramatizing current events in a compelling artistic way, without brimstone or treacle, is devilishly difficult.
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Of course, dramatizing such a double mistake in female judgment might make for an amusing comedy.
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By dramatizing the relationship between parents and children, the film explores one of its core themes.
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SF Well, I'm dramatizing a woman who refuses to see her children the way they are.
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Instead, it is heavy-handed in the best way, dramatizing Offred's claustrophobia through gorgeous tableaux of repression.
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Activists coördinated mailings to flood politicians' offices, and staged demonstrations dramatizing their plight as an overlooked minority.
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Sirk intended his movie to be "almost like a documentary," Carradine's cold, self-dramatizing impersonation not least.
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Still, you're likely to find yourself hanging on every one of Strings's self-contradicting, self-dramatizing words.
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The cartoonist has an uncanny gift for dramatizing mundane realities and the absurd anxieties that accompany them.
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But creating these simulacra of the book's characters, however accurately, is not the same as dramatizing them.
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Dolin is also seen in a number of nude poses, far from full frontal, but startlingly self-dramatizing.
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A Hollywood movie dramatizing the events, "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi," was released earlier this year.
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Stone wrote about how he was "probably over dramatizing the role" Credico played as his backchannel to WikiLeaks.
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He avoids dramatizing the lives of peasants and manual laborers, or giving heroic stature to his bedraggled subjects.
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Still, Nolfi keeps swinging in that direction, stodgily dramatizing Bernard's efforts as Eunice smiles and delivers wifely pep talks.
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Each new season brings a crop of movies and glossy TV serials dramatizing the heroics of our Special Operations.
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She's good at dramatizing her inner monologue, and at making the audience feel as if she's one of them.
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The brain becomes addicted to dramatizing pain, they said; and the more you feed it, the stronger the addiction.
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He has been on the press circuit dramatizing the agonizing shoot, bragging about his verisimilitude in eating raw bison liver.
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The show is a combination of real-life interviews with investigators and family members, and scenes dramatizing the actual events.
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Ashley's main fear is that Caila and Jared will bone, a fear the show's editors had a great time dramatizing.
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In Mr. Owens's slightly self-dramatizing worldview, the challenge is rolling his particular boulder up a hill of cultural conformity.
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Still, the dramatizing effect of Sondheim's scores is more profound when both he and his collaborators are at their best.
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"Dramatizing these events makes them seem isolated — a bad-apples incident," Ben Kenigsberg wrote in his New York Times review.
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THE JOURNEY Dramatizing a difficult moment in the establishment of Northern Irish home rule, "The Journey" imagines that the Rev.
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By dramatizing an isolation that can be cured only by an unknown reader, the confidences come to belong to all.
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The Circle actually takes its audience places, dramatizing the experience of online social interactions in all their fizz and slipperiness.
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What better way to chase broad global audiences than dramatizing an event that brings the world together for a few weeks?
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" He told me that Steele's whistle-blowing seemed "self-dramatizing," adding, "We see Steele viewing himself as a historically important person.
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Religion is often invoked in hip-hop in a metaphorical way, a method of dramatizing one's struggles against temptation or judgment.
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Writers like you are continually probing and dramatizing those states, and that move from what appears to be certainty to uncertainty.
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Dramatizing social ineptitude was his way of fusing punk with art school; it meant he could play around with tropes and themes.
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"Holy Mountain" has one character freeze to death dangling in midair; "White Hell" is even more intense in dramatizing a physical ordeal.
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He pointedly avoided dramatizing Columbus's encounters with Native Americans, and mostly confined the explorer to the second of this opera's three acts.
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"They're very good at dramatizing the method," said Ted Underwood, a professor at the University of Illinois who also uses computational analysis.
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Sebald's talent for repression—for sounding out the repressions of others and for dramatizing his own—is a central element of his writing.
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The biographical film centers on the life and death of activist Malcolm X while also dramatizing events from his childhood through flashback scenes.
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Moreover, a pair of tragicomic scenes centered on the fragility of Al's equipment set a template for generations of self-dramatizing filmmakers. ♦
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Instead it drags, hitting the same notes about Kathryn's obliviousness and self-dramatizing, and it starts to feel like a long weekend indeed.
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It was a way to rally public support for the Cold War by dramatizing Communist repression and stoking fears of a worldwide menace.
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He sought to persuade by explaining and reasoning, not by simplifying or dramatizing—a form of respect that the citizenry didn't always deserve.
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The director Peter Berg and the actor Mark Wahlberg have collaborated on three films dramatizing real-life calamities in the past four years.
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Most of the screen time is spent dramatizing the catch-22s of female rulership—namely, producing such an heir without ceding power to men.
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Trump responded in the Oval Office, declaring Schiff should be looked at for "treason" for dramatizing a version of the Ukraine call last week.
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Rather than mirroring the literal facts of her own life, Marsden Hartley was doing something much bigger and more significant: He was dramatizing them.
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Rush Hour director Brett Ratner is working with the United Nations to produce an anthology series dramatizing historic humanitarian crises from around the world.
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This weird zone, somewhere between fiction and a reality that's stranger than fiction, represents the broad challenge of dramatizing Snowden's story for mass audiences.
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He was solitary and self-dramatizing, later even a bit of a dandy, affecting sword canes, capes, three-piece suits with watch fobs and fedoras.
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While the singer has the propensity for peering into life's bleaker corners, but he's also reconciled his past and has no interest in dramatizing it.
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There is consternation over "U — July 22," a new film dramatizing the deaths of 77 people in attacks by a right-wing terrorist in 2011.
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With Narcos and now Narcos: Mexico, Netflix leveraged the appeal of true crime in dramatizing the rise of drug kingpins Pablo Escobar and Félix Gallardo.
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The scene from Mr. Boquiren's "Stop and Frisk," dramatizing a white man's struggle to empathize with the humiliation his black friend suffered, was sharply drawn.
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Activists should focus on crystallizing grievances, dramatizing injustice, and mobilizing supporters — all with a view toward gaining political influence, forming coalitions, and making strategic electoral calculations.
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So, come season 6, was I cringing at the show's violent content — or was I cringing at the show itself for dramatizing that content so frequently?
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But science fiction writers, particularly the cyberpunk authors who inspired "Ghost in the Shell," have been dramatizing the risks of versions of this idea for decades.
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Bob Klug, who later became the director of "60 Minutes," edited a mystical, ethereal opening sequence dramatizing the Mets' epic Game 6 comeback in the Series.
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As the continued success and impact of Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit musical "Hamilton" has recently reminded us, dramatizing history is rarely ever about the past alone.
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"I was concerned about dramatizing the two main romantic relationships, since both of the girls are so intellectual in their attachment to other people," he explained.
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As literary biopics go, though, it's well above average, dramatizing the much-studied parallels between the life of Mary Shelley (Elle Fanning) and her Frankenstein monster.
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Such portrayals usually employ a sort of filmic "social realism," dramatizing poverty and inequality in a way that keeps it at a safe distance from the viewer.
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Dr. King's SCLC set its sights on policy and legal change; by dramatizing injustice through nonviolent civil disobedience, it successfully sought civil rights and voting rights legislation.
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Sara Mearns, as in the fall, was dancing at peak strength, but often serving her own self-dramatizing intensity more than the subtler demands of the roles.
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Its endless inventiveness in dramatizing a painful subject — the sexual abuse of an adolescent by her uncle — has kept it fresh all three times I've seen it.
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What began to happen in real life felt in some ways so much more dramatic and so much more terrifying than what we were dramatizing on television.
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But the film spends more time dramatizing the scandal's worst-case scenario than examining the facts — producing compelling personal narratives at the cost of valuable context and perspective.
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So I thought the worst possible thing I could do in telling a story like that would be to contribute to that problem by over-fictionalizing, over-dramatizing.
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The simultaneous existence of lavish, successful television series dramatizing the lives of the current British queen, Elizabeth II, and her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, makes comparison inevitable.
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One can't help but feel that creator Peter Morgan was still expecting her to be around by the time he faced the problem of dramatizing her later years.
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"Patriots Day," a film about the Boston Marathon bombing, is the third collaboration between the director Peter Berg and the actor Mark Wahlberg dramatizing a real-life calamity.
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In the meantime, for all their dramatizing, the lawmakers who spoke today seemed sincere in their concerns about the havoc Libra might wreak havoc on the global financial system.
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The movie's version of the event continues with Crawford inflicting further cruelties in a state of theatrical, self-dramatizing possession—emphasized by her Kabuki-like mask of cold cream.
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As pure political calculation, analysts from both parties said that seizing on the caravan mobilized Republican voters, dramatizing immigration in a way that resonated with Mr. Trump's political base.
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In dramatizing these choices, McDermott unfolds the origami of a particular Catholic mind-set, in which the stakes are the highest and no neat or clear outcome is available.
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He invited scrutiny, for instance, by dramatizing the raid on al-Baghdadi&aposs and comparing it to the raid that took down Osama bin Laden during the Obama administration.
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But to the author of the study, Jaclyn Schildkraut, an associate professor at the State University of New York at Oswego, there is no point in dramatizing the drills.
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Whatever the case, dramatizing the Queen's relationship with her unhappy daughter-in-law will be his most sensitive challenge -- especially when Diana's eldest son likes to call in lawyers.
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A certain type of man would no doubt gleefully seize on this coda as evidence that women are fickle, self-dramatizing flibbertigibbets whose recall and accusations can't be trusted.
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German camera maker Leica is facing heat from Chinese censors and nationalistic internet users who are leaving angry comments after it launched an ad dramatizing the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
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When the protagonist is fully extinguished, the same footage is played in reverse, dramatizing the resurrection as Cassils is lifted from the floor and the artist's self-annihilation is undone.
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This automator-friendly passivity, in turn, has found a happy synchronicity in the media's penchant for dramatizing science fiction tropes apparently come to life, and voilà—the robots are coming.
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O.J. Simpson, which distinguishes itself by its movie-star talent — Cuba Gooding Jr., John Travolta, Jordana Brewster, Nathan Lane — and by dramatizing the most famous criminal trial in American history.
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Its wooden first half may be part of the puzzle Eno is dramatizing: Why is it that in our youth, with possibility everywhere, the world seems so flat and impenetrable?
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Despite what he says at the start of the show, he is less interested in telling us what he thinks about abortion than in dramatizing confusion and anxiety about it.
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Trump's complaint stems from Schiff's ill-conceived attempt at dramatizing Trump's pressure campaign on foreign leaders during a Congressional hearing Thursday, using hyperbolic language to paint a narrative of corruption.
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Is Soloway dramatizing the point she made in her TIFF talk, that catering to the male gaze keeps women "busy with that half of me that is reaching for approval"?
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Dash speaks to the duties of technologists, the ways that digital formats—like the size of text boxes on blogs—have shaped online journalism; and the risks of visually dramatizing data.
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Dash speaks to the duties of technologists, the ways that digital formats—like the size of text boxes on blogs—have shaped online journalism; and the risks of visually dramatizing data.
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But for political reasons, to avoid more charges of out-of-control spending from Republicans, Mr. Obama resisted using such superlatives, just as he resisted dramatizing the economic crisis he inherited.
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The third episode is a chilling showpiece, dramatizing Gilead's tilt from liberal democracy into fascism, nimbly shifting from intimate scenes to grand ones, making one form of drama frame the other.
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Thus, "The Witch" provides a kind of back story for movies like "The Shining" and "Poltergeist," as well as, most obviously, "The Blair Witch Project," in dramatizing a primal American unease.
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There is still a strong partisan divide on the issue, which has lined up with Trump's continual tweeting about the issue and his assertion that the press is dramatizing the issue.
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The painting's monumental scale puts this tragic moment on steroids, serving not only as a grim reminder that France was not always a unified kingdom, but dramatizing how we all sometimes fail.
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When a trailer dropped for "Bombshell," a movie dramatizing the fall of Roger Ailes and the shake-up of Fox News, Guilfoyle was featured via a look-alike played by Bree Condon.
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In "Rust and Stardust," T. Greenwood sets herself the task of dramatizing Sally's experience, attempting to fill in those missing feelings and reactions, as well as those of her family and friends.
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Moments later, "Something's Coming" sets a jumpy tune against a monotonous substrate, dramatizing the longings for escape that propel Tony — the Romeo figure in this updated "Romeo and Juliet" — toward his fate.
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While dramatizing the practical political irrelevance of ideas, the McCarthy legacy on the right also highlights the second rule governing the modern conservative movement: the indispensability of the mob and its demagogues.
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Occasionally, people will eschew humor entirely in favor of dramatizing personal anecdotes: a deathbed confession of a curmudgeonly uncle or maybe a particularly poignant moment from a grade school production of Cats.
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It gets all the scary glamor, with even a movie this year, "San Andreas," dramatizing an apocalypse in the western U.S. Truth is, the San Andreas is a lightweight compared with the Cascadia.
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A Los Angeles billboard promoting Showtime's upcoming miniseries dramatizing the career of former Fox News president Roger Ailes was vandalized with a phrase mocking Showtime's parent company CBS, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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It also prompted a renewed interest in the 1976 movie All the President's Men, which tells the story of Watergate — but there are plenty of other movies dramatizing or examining those events as well.
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As of the start of the year, 19 U.S. states had raised minimum wages, dramatizing a long simmering debate: Do minimum wages kill jobs, and make the working class worse off in the end?
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It's a reasonable reaction to a plot that incessantly nudges him from point A to point A. The good news is that Mr. Sondheim's score remains thrillingly incisive, dramatizing every issue in its path.
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They include a humorless working-class Communist painter (Emond); a one-eyed Trotskyite (Esper); a gay dilettante (Urie, in the show's most affecting performance) and a self-dramatizing analysand actress (a miscast Grace Gummer).
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In June, Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes publicly criticized The Crown's take on Prince Philip: "For me, I'm not completely comfortable with dramatizing people who are still alive and still living their lives," he said.
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She said that personalizing and dramatizing the vote meant that many of the people who voted 'No' -- particularly the younger voters -- did so for political reasons beyond the text of the reform and its consequences.
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Mr. Morris has always drawn on aspects of basic body language, sometimes dramatizing what may appear clumsy or strenuous, and in that way making us pay fresh attention to something we might not otherwise notice.
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Dramatizing their debates and reversals of position, Miéville shows that the Bolsheviks, despite their rhetorical distance from the other socialists, hesitated before the demands of the people, begging them not to overthrow the hapless Provisional Government.
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Karl Marx increasingly gives way to the Marx Brothers as Stalin's son and daughter (the contrapuntal Rupert Friend and Andrea Riseborough) rush in to wail and thunder, adding absurdity and self-dramatizing melodrama to the mix.
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Even so, when it comes to dramatizing the lifestyles of the filthy rich, the one-two punch provided by "Trust" and "Billions" is a reminder that the ongoing fascination remains one of TV's most renewable resources.
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On Day 12 of the shutdown, President Trump plans to hold today's meeting with congressional leaders in the Situation Room as a way of dramatizing security concerns at the border, according to Hill sources in both parties.
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Tuesday marks Equal Pay Day, a symbolic event dramatizing how much longer it takes a woman to earn as much as a man - and an annual opportunity for Democrats to lambast Republicans for inaction on the issue.
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In lieu of a music video, he made a seventeen-minute film dramatizing a teen-ager's loving home—he's playing the piano while his mother cooks—then his harrowing murder when he's sent out to buy groceries.
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It too often settles for having Laurie explain something that happened to her rather than dramatizing it, and Curtis is so committed to what she's doing that the rest of the movie occasionally feels a little lackadaisical.
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These topics are well worth dramatizing, but when covered unyieldingly for decades as the only black histories on TV, they cement the false notion that the only black stories worth telling are those of bondage and oppression.
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"On the Basis of Sex" does a brisk, coherent job of articulating what Ginsburg accomplished and why it mattered, dramatizing both her personal stake in feminist legal activism and the intellectual discipline with which she approached it.
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The script by Mr. Veiel, a noted filmmaker, and his collaborator Jutta Doberstein does a fine job dramatizing the complex ideas developed during the workshops, explaining complex hypothetical economic and political scenarios in clever and nuanced ways.
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"You are free to make use of this heritage in any way you want, by publishing, digitizing, compiling, translating, adapting, dramatizing, or treating the material in any other way," McLean wrote in a 2004 email, archived here.
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"Football is closely identified as part of the American way of life, dramatizing the virtues America believes in, the team work, the heroism, the power, all of those things America wants to present to the world," explained Deninger.
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After she is murdered, two copies of her will are found—one favoring the son, the other the rental relatives—dramatizing the tension between received pieties about filial love and the economic relations that bind parents and children.
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Visconti, a longtime member of the Italian Communist Party, was also one of the founders of neorealism, dramatizing the struggles of working-class Romans, Sicilian fisherman and migrants from the southern countryside to the factories of the north.
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Rewind Set mainly in a back-lot version of Freud's Vienna, "Letter From an Unknown Woman" (1948) is as exquisite an account of romantic obsession as Hollywood ever produced, dramatizing a passion as outsize as it is understated.
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Rather than resorting to the familiar tricks of biography-lite — dramatizing tired anecdotes, larding the narrative with undigested research about particle physics and Oppenheimer's persecution during the McCarthy era — Hall has shaped a richly imagined, tremendously moving fictional work.
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This nomadic brand of conceptualism is less the spatial manipulation of found objects than a meditative withdrawal from objectivity itself, an intellectualism that would approach transcendence were it not so invested in dramatizing dematerialization as the byproduct of an industrial process.
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The Perecian tack of dramatizing silence and absence maintains the gravitas, decorum, and restraint common to human grieving rituals and to public memorials such as Berlin's Holocaust Memorial, Washington D.C.'s Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and New York City's 9/11 Memorial.
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Given that Anyanwu is not only black but African, a first-generation American and that she's working within the theater, her stories are doubly complex: She's dramatizing the cultural crisis of assimilating as well as the existential crisis of the assimilated.
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As you would expect from a musical with a book and lyrics by Tony Kushner, "Caroline" is thematically ambitious, dramatizing an enormous range of ideas in the story of a black maid working for a Jewish family in Louisiana in 1963.
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Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that she is "frustrated" over her inability to participate in an upcoming film dramatizing the sexual misconduct scandal that led to the ouster of founder Roger Ailes.
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For all its psychosexual shenanigans, the movie — shot in mid-1968, several months after Sontag returned from a trip to Hanoi — does have a political point, dramatizing the failure of revolution in the light of the so-called generation gap.
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Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers, on the other hand, was a futuristic action cartoon, dramatizing a battle with giant space bugs; its gravitas was best summarized by the fact that its director's previous film was the widely reviled 1995 stripper drama Showgirls.
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Rather than over-dramatizing the fact that more "work" will never come from the artist, and that all we have left are his sketches for what could have been, the notes simply give the viewer a sense of the man, thoughtfully organized.
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While Rudy Giuliani continues his descent into the political gutter as a surrogate for Trump, Sanders campaigns fervently for Clinton, reminding voters why he dominated the real estate tycoon by huge margins in matchup polls and dramatizing the progressive populist majority in America.
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The film is ostensibly about their relationship, but director Joe Berlinger and screenwriter Michael Werwie can't quite seem to commit — they end up dramatizing the broader story of Bundy's capture and trials, while only intermittently returning to Kendall in the film's second half.
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" (He was talking about movie reviews, but the line is broadly applicable.) In her review of a biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay, for example, Moore notes that she was "petite, intense, bright, witty, romantic, freckled, auburn-haired, self-dramatizing and beautiful.
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"An American Saga," on the other hand, offers a slightly fictionalized version of Wu-Tang's origin story, with a talented cast of young actors dramatizing the way the Clan overcame a hard life in New York City to become internationally famous musicians.
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These were all trends that existed long before Trump and "Trumpism" arrived on the political scene, as our political incentive structures favor tribal partisanship instead of compromise, with a growing media universe dedicated to covering, and dramatizing, each step of the political horse race.
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Among "Marriage Story's" chief pleasures is watching the great Merritt Wever and Julie Hagerty bring flawless timing and shrewd comic sensibilities to their roles as Nicole's sister and mother, whose reflexive self-dramatizing extends even to the simple act of serving someone divorce papers.
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Like their peers in the suburbs, bundled up on BMX bikes or skateboarding in sweatshirts with the logo of Thrasher magazine, a generation of hip-hop kids found the hoodie suitable for the important adolescent work of taking up space and dramatizing the self.
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The darkness of the "auditorium" gives way to a room full of bright spotlights shining on more sculptures, dramatizing each of them with harsh shadows and causing them to stand out as distinct objects from one another (though they mostly come in sets of three).
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A cold peace has settled in between Seattle and Amazon after the city enacted a tax to help get homeless people off the street and into affordable housing — dramatizing the new tension in Big Tech's relationship with the cities and countries in which it operates.
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The constraints of its genre are too bizarre not to have been chosen deliberately, just as Wohl deliberately constrained "Small Mouth Sounds" by setting it at a wordless spiritual retreat, and "Make Believe" by using the playacting of children as a medium for dramatizing mistreatment.
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Shelly's journey has been the great surprise of "Transparent": As she has asserted her right to be more than a supporting player to her self-dramatizing kids, she has evolved from being an almost comic-relief figure into an emotional center of the series.
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His opponents had accused him of over-dramatizing the anti-tunnel operation and of fear-mongering to distract the public's attention after the Israeli police recommended that Mr. Netanyahu be indicted on bribery, fraud and other charges in a third corruption case against him.
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Pop anthropologists have long done this before him, with music, with fashion, with sports, with sex — but Bourdain was the first to break out of the niche subject he inhabited professionally, because he did it plainly and without pomp, without ever dumbing things down or dramatizing differences.
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Rather than change the essentials of this story, one of his saddest, this new musical adaptation aims to add tenderness and joy to the journey of an impoverished Victorian child by dramatizing the visions she experiences as she tries to sell her wares in the cold.
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New on Blu-ray, Samuel Fuller's second Korean War film, released in 1951 while the war was still being fought, is as tough, nihilistic and filled with dark humor as his first treatment of Korea, "The Steel Helmet," in dramatizing the impossible pressures on infantrymen in combat.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 89% (season 1)What critics said: "Showrunner Eric Newman has gotten very good at dramatizing the ever-expanding saga of the drug war for television, and the result here are 10 tense, detail-oriented episodes that don't lack for action and drama.
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Between popular blockbusters depicting the end of the world, popular TV shows dramatizing post-apocalyptic survival, and seemingly ever-rising tensions between very real global powers on the world's stage, my generation didn't grow up with the specter of nuclear war quite like our parents did.
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But with an assist from Mr. Schenkkan (no stranger to dramatizing the current administration) and Mr. Lithgow, he ended up bringing forth the kind of literary figure who might have come from the keyboard of Tony Kushner: an embattled, thunderous giant, furiously playing the angles in America.
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The story does take an epic, rangy perspective, as the long setup jumps from one far-flung locale to another to establish pockets of evil while also dramatizing Bruce Wayne's backstory, here conceived as seeing his parents gunned down in the street after emerging from a theater showing Excalibur.
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Taking place in the deep marsh of rural, poverty-stricken Louisiana, the movie introduces us to drug addicts and spring-break revelers, militiamen and card-carrying Obama-haters, all for the purpose of humanizing but also dramatizing these people's frustration at being left behind in an age of globalization.
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The public hearings that opened on Wednesday were meant to take the case developed by Democrats behind closed doors over the past seven weeks out of the darkness and onto the national stage, dramatizing it in a way that a black-and-white transcript of a deposition never could.
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It is a little strange, in a biography of this quality, to find the mother of the protagonist rubbed out, as in one of those Disney films in which the moms are killed off at the outset in the interest of dramatizing the embattled status of the hero.
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Winner of both the Yasnaya Polyana Book Award and Russia's Big Book Prize, and a finalist for the Russian Booker Prize, "Zuleikha" does such an admirable job of dramatizing a historical period rapidly receding into the forgotten past that one can't help wishing it were a slightly better book.
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Eager students of Ms. Waters's place in America's culinary history will most likely devour it as readily as her critics, who have called her the self-dramatizing Joan of Arc of American cuisine and compared her dictatorial style to that of the Khmer Rouge, will tear into it.
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"[Screenwriter] Joe Penhall was the first person to say, 'I think I can do a better job of dramatizing this if I'm given the leeway to take some of the attributes of this person and some of the attributes of this person and create a new character,' " Fincher told Time.
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WELCOME TO MARWEN Dramatizing the story told in the documentary "Marwencol" (2010), Robert Zemeckis taps Steve Carell to play the outsider artist Mark Hogancamp, who, having suffered brain damage in an assault, began making a model of a fictional World War II-era town and cast himself as a war hero.
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Read more:The former Fox News anchor who sued Roger Ailes just opened up about dealing with sexual harassment at workThe new trailer for &aposBombshell&apos shows more spitting-image casting choices dramatizing the fall of Roger Ailes28 photos that show how Charlize Theron&aposs style has evolved through the years
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Just days after an engineering frat at New York's Syracuse University, Theta Tau, apologized for an "extremely racist" video showing members swearing to hate "n*ggers, sp*cs, and most importantly the fuckin' k*kes," a second video emerged apparently showing brothers dramatizing the sexual assault of a disabled person.
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She incarnated the golden age of that period, the 1920s, with butterfly grace eight years ago, when she appeared at the Manhattan Theater Club production of "The Royal Family," George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's vintage satire about a clan of self-dramatizing show people, inspired by those Broadway stalwarts the Barrymores.
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These are all wonderful women with a great deal to contribute to uniting and mobilizing our people and dramatizing the fact that every man and woman in our nation, literally without exception, can take actions in their daily lives that make them patriot soldiers in the war to defeat the pandemic plague.
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Reporters and producers, often doing hard work trying to make sure that the facts are not clouded over by the administration's often deceptive rhetoric, sometimes have gone too far in dramatizing every moment in the Trump presidency to the point that most viewers and readers can't really tell whether they should be worried.
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But Mezrich is even more interested in telling the stories of the people trying to make the mammoth a reality, dramatizing the lives of Church, his wife, Harvard Professor Dr. Ting Wu, their fellow scientists, researchers working for a competing cloning lab in Korea, and the conservationists at the Siberian preserve where the mammoths will finally reside.
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All of these frightening Dirty John breadcrumbs likely leave viewers wondering what actually happened to Cindi Vickers and if the series is dramatizing its leading lady's loss for the sake of Bravo TV. When you look into the case, you'll learn nothing could be further from the truth — and the fallout from Vickers' murder clarifies many of Debbie's most shocking choices.
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Bending and splitting the back of an aluminum chair, as Mr. Dodge does in two untitled stand-alone pieces, registers with the force of a car crash, while balancing such a mutilated chair atop three water glasses — dramatizing the temporary nature of its artistic position in a way that's unmistakably intentional — creates a piece that isn't just accessible, but moving.
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Talking about his agenda in high-profile ways — and dramatizing his commitment to it by shutting down the government — is completely counterproductive, serving only to fire up millions of banal Democrats who've never in their lives held an opinion about what kind of border security measures are appropriate in rural West Texas in order to oppose Trump at every turn.
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For example, the story requires characters to move throughout the solar system far faster than any currently known technology would permit, so a subplot in one episode this season was devoted to dramatizing the invention of the "Epstein Drive," a propulsion system that allows for ultra-fast travel without gravity-related side effects that would otherwise turn a body into mush.
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Recalling this week's interview, Nadler said he led Hicks down a long series of questions where White House officials objected to basic factual questions, such as whether war broke out between Egypt and Israel during the Trump era, in order to "make it more dramatizing to the judge" about "how absurd" the White House's sweeping claims of "absolute immunity" were to prevent Hicks from answering questions.
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Rather, I came to Oslo as an admirer of Ullmann's novels — their formal variety and daring; their commitment to seeking out the rough edges of the world; their complexity in presenting emotion in duress; their fraught depictions of childhood's perils; their originality in dramatizing the particular struggles of young women; their unflinching ability to depict moments of violence; the rigor and surprise of their sentences.
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Some were films whose onscreen turbulence more than equaled their stormy receptions, like "Ashes and Diamonds" (1958), dramatizing the conflict between the Home Army and the Communists; "Man of Marble" (1977), likely the first Soviet bloc movie to address head-on the failures and hypocrisies of a ruling Communist Party; and "Katyn" (2007), addressing a World War II massacre committed by the Soviet secret police and blamed on the Germans.
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The movie "does a good job of dramatizing the salient emotions of the moment and the racism that surrounded Robinson and every other black American of his time," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times, adding that the director Brian Helgeland "avoids the trap that so many depictions of the Jim Crow era fall into, which is to imply that racial prejudice was an individual or regional pathology rather than a national social norm."
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