Word: avatars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there were other sides to the Stewart performances. He is most often thought of as the sentimental avatar of "Capracorn," though he made only three pictures with Frank Capra. He made only four films with Hitchcock. But he made eight with Anthony Mann, more than with any other director, and five of those were westerns with a cynical edge that anticipated the "dark" westerns of Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah. These appeared in the 1950s, when American innocence was challenged and betrayed by a worldwide conspiracy, by a treason of the knowing and elite, when even Stewart had to show...
...grease, all the glue. And it's always so wet. Makes me want to spew." Bunt, for his part, is a pathetic mama's boy who can find release and some measure of independence only with Hong Kong bar girls, "the happy hello-goodbye of urgent sex." Hung, the avatar of the new Hong Kong order, is a brute: "Brandy was gleaming on Mr. Hung's lips. He looked drunk, his face pinkish and raw, his eyes boiled, and he was smiling in a vicious way as he chewed with his mouth open." And if bad table manners...
Harvard's 7-2 win yesterday was the perfect pick-me-up after the weariness of finals: an avatar of textbook baseball in which the pitching and the offense combined to throttle the fourth ranked team in the country...
...could do business with that man.? This paraphrase of Margaret Thatcher?s comment after meeting Mikhail Gorbachev pretty much tips Theroux?s hand in ?Kowloon Tong.? He is aiming at broad political satire, and nearly any target will do. Both the Mullards are contemptible. Hung, the avatar of the new Hong Kong order, is a brute . . . and may be guilty of murdering one of Imperial Stitching?s working women. Readers who like to take sides will not find palatable choices in ?Kowloon Tong.? Theroux?s distaste for everyone involved in his tale registers clearly and often brilliantly. But it seems...
...life he was an avatar of love, peace and altered consciousness, but when he died, Jerry Garcia left his estate with a big legal hangover. After a bitter court feud, Deborah Koons Garcia, his last wife, has been ordered to pay Carolyn ("Mountain Girl") Garcia, the hippie-ish mother of two of his four kids, $5 million in alimony. Deborah plans to appeal...