Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question of what happens if they do find an audience. Commercial success is both the goal and the fear of this schizophrenic festival: Can a filmmaker be embraced by Hollywood and avoid selling out? At Sundance, the issue is still of vital importance, and the next step is the acid test. When the hot new discovery returns to Park City, will it be to screen another iconoclastic feature? Or just to hang out at the afterparties...
...radio host musing over whether America was really better and happier in the '50s than today, or merely more self-deceiving. It ends with a middle-aged man confronting medical and moral decay. In between, it depicts rage between the accomplished and the envious, each side etched in acid. Bogosian is politically incorrect enough to play an unappetizing street black, arrogant enough to enact an egomaniacal fan and complex enough to risk a jolting tirade against "starving Africans" who, by their unsettling omnipresence on the evening news, "spoil everything." This rant is at once a wail over injustice...
...portrait. McPherson rounds up a delicious list of suspects. There is Laura's fiance Shelby, a Southern gigolo played by a very young and dapper Vincent Price. There is also Laura's aunt, who is having an affair with Shelby. And lastly, there's Waldo Lydeker (Clifton Webb), an acid-tongued newspaper columnist whose pen, in his own words, is dipped in poison...
...bleak existence in prison begins with his meek, aging father (Pete Postlethwaite). The two, who were never very close before, suddenly grow dependent upon one another, venting their anger, frustrations, and love. They are clearly of two generations: While Guiseppe Conlon prays with his rosary, Gerry trips on acid. When without proper medical care, Guiseppe's heart condition becomes critical, Gerry must grow up. He does things he would never have done before: He rubs menthol on his father's chest, saves the life of a warden, and begins to cooperate with the young lawyer, Gareth Peirce (Emma Thompson...
This thread of life, of course, is deoxyribonucleic acid, the spiral- staircase-shape molecule found in the nucleus of cells. Scientists have known since 1952 that DNA is the basic stuff of heredity. They've known its chemical structure since 1953. They know that human DNA acts like a biological computer program some 3 billion bits long that spells out the instructions for making proteins, the basic building blocks of life...