Word: afterthought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is one tiny redeeming moment at the film's end. Morgan Freeman mentions that the world is worth fighting for, but this line seems an incongruous afterthought and does little to dilute the overwhelming sense of spiritual darkness one takes away from Seven...
...misplaced. Back in Dunsmuir, the FBI agent's interview with John Signor about his article progressed positively enough. He provided a list of his subscribers, including the 30 who live in Arizona. He shared what he knew about the tracks outside Phoenix. He remained polite when, almost as an afterthought, the agent asked if he had an alibi for early Monday morning. (He does.) But looming over the conversation was a fact Signor did not have to mention to the agent, since it is clearly stated in his article on the derailment of 1939. No culprit was ever found...
...clean lines and colors. But as I peered through six people to look more closely, it seemed not glitzy, but wan and bleak. The man and woman seemed bored with life and with each other. Their hands touched only barely, as if in an afterthought...
Thus did Nagasaki enter history, an afterthought on the day of its ordeal and ever since a footnote: the second city to be hit by an atomic bomb. Fat Man exploded 1650 ft. above the city of some 240,000 people on the western coast of Kyushu at 11:02 on the morning of Aug. 9. In many ways, the event was a carbon copy of the horrors of Hiroshima: flash, heat, blast, radiation; permanent shadows cast by bombshine; thirsty, mortally burned people, emerging from the smoke and dust, trailing strips of their skin behind them. Some in Nagasaki...
...undergraduates at Harvard. Ask any student which courses he or she plans to take in a given semester, and the answer will invariably end, "and a Core." this response encapsulates the core's problem; through its mediocrity and lack of a unifying vision, it has become an academic afterthought...