Word: airing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though outrageous and crude, the jokes in the Farrelly Brothers' most recent sideshow attraction are also intensely predictable, which keeps the movie from lifting off. Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller and Matt Dillon all give their best shot to keeping the ball in the air, but for one thing, their presence is almost arbitrary in many scenes to the extent that Mary's humor is all visual and only rarely connected to dialogue; poor Cameron could be reciting Rilke beneath those "hair gel"-enhanced bangs and no one would know the difference. Then again, everyone else seems to have...
There is an immediacy of action in the intimate space of the Peabody black box. Even in October the air is warm, stagnant and smells of cedar. Lighting director Mara Fishman conjures up the shadow of a slow-turning fan that cuts the oppressive heat of the show's Memphis setting. Albee intertwines two seemingly unrelated plots: One plot perceives a hospital staff as microcosmic to the discussion of racism; the other tells the story of the singer Bessie Smith. The two collide only in the end, when Bessie's companion Jack crashes and Bessie dies. Her death...
Although Rowell said "the life of the magazine is up in the air," he repeatedly commented that the magazine is still fighting to stay alive...
...terms, he may have no desire to givethe critic anything to find. There is certainlynothing wrong with a poetry of the enjoyable,particularly given that Koch's stance is a rareone in contemporary American literature. Despitetheir flaws, his poems and his attitude can feellike a breath of fresh air, especially when theyare presented as winningly as he presented themduring his visit...
...Most of NATO is ready to strike, but Italy is suddenly demanding that the issue be referred back to the U.N. Security Council (where Russia would almost certainly veto a strike). Rome's support is crucial since Italy provides most of the air bases to be used in the strike, but demurring on Kosovo may be part of Prime Minister Romano Prodi's domestic strategy to keep a Communist faction from bolting his fragile coalition. NATO officials are confident of getting Italy on board, but the continuation of eleventh-hour talks in Belgrade suggest that there...