Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...responsible for the never-ending drama in Dunster House? While The Crimson is not the root of the problems in Dunster House, it has certainly contributed to, if not caused, the soap opera feeling of the entire affair...
...shots of flowing lava, deserts and snow drifts suggest a wasteland, presumably Siberia, that, accompanied by haunting music, add to the sense of the impending doom of the love affair. The bizarre sequences involving a flying man form a stark contrast to the jovial musical scenes and make the film a surreal montage rather than a generic documentary...
...defense, the Crimson hung tough. Led by Chelius and senior goalie Brooke Donahoe (also nine saves), the Crimson stymied the Big Red offense through the marathon affair...
Hwang's play was based on the incredible-but-true story of a French diplomatic attache in Beijing who conducted a 17-year sexual affair with a Chinese spy posing as an opera singer and never suspected that the lady was a man. (According to Liaison, Joyce Wadler's fascinating new biography of the diplomat, the opera singer was able to fold his genitals inside his body, thus giving the naked illusion of femininity.) From this International Enquirer item, Hwang spun a phantasm of multiple myopia: a man preposterously blinded by love, a European culture blinkered by imperialist prejudice...
...unfair to single anyone out of this extraordinary cast, but the lunatic self-assurance of Tim Robbins as a motorcycle cop stealing his own children's dog (he hates the mutt), conducting an affair and covering his absences with tall tales of undercover drug investigations is hatefully hilarious. His braying boldness represents one emotional extreme in the picture. The other (the one that touches the most lives, and whose story is structurally the center of the film) is played, with great delicacy, by Andie MacDowell and Bruce Davison as the couple trying to cope with their child...