Word: allene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...genius is in demonstrating how Prior himself uses affectations to take on the world, an effort made all the more poignant by his persuasive bursts of anger and resentment. Augustine's fussy accent and flying hands do not always work so well. At times, his Roy Cohn resembles Woody Allen's nastiest, mightiest older brother, but he does bring Cohn's despotic intelligence and fierce defensiveness vividly to life...
Comedic elements are also introduced in the third act in a vain attempt to re-charge the faltering narrative. A scene set in a sushi bar is oddly reminiscent of a Woody Allen film. However Figgis only hints at the ironic comedy and existential angst found in the best of Allen's work...
...Windup Bird Chronicle is a noirish, tragi-comic epic worthy of its own praise dictionary. From a bizarre story of the thirty-something's marital and spiritual crisis, Murakami's novel kaleidoscopes out into an exploration of post-WWII Japan that moves from the horrors of war to Allen Ginsberg to the loss of a beloved family...
...Cambridge resident reported that a male wearing a black and white Halloween mask pulled her out of her 1995 Mitsubishi Gallant in front of 57 Bishop Allen Drive and drove off in her vehicle...
...lingered exclusively in Edwardiana; curiosity drives her into many movie landscapes. She is splendid as the impatient girlfriend of penniless poet Richard E. Grant in a lovely new film of George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying. She has played Marina Oswald (the TV movie Fatal Deception), Woody Allen's selfish wife (in Mighty Aphrodite), Sister Clare to Mickey Rourke's Francis of Assisi (no, really, in the 1989 Francesco), a French-speaking fashion designer (Portraits Chinois), a bachelor-party stripper (the BBC's Dancing Queen) and a scrubwoman who lops off vital parts of her deceased loved ones--tongue...