Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After they grudgingly accepted Prince's Purple Rain, movie critics went into Under the Cherry Moon with their reviews already written. They only attended the film to see whether the movie was bad enough for the obituary section...
Prince skillfully manages to capture and balance the farcical humor that opens the movie with the romantic tragedy that ends it. That's not bad for a first timer...
...back into the 30s and even to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open. But his passion was not for winning. "If I wanted it more, maybe I would have gone higher. Maybe I didn't have the champion's mentality of sacrificing everything to one aim. If that's bad, that's bad...
...looking on forlornly as her 15- year-old black lover Willie Jay and his dog Dog, each wearing sunglasses as disguise, leave town on the same bus. (Babe, who is impulsive, has shot her nasty husband Zackery, leaving him perforated but not terminated, and he has threatened to do bad things to Willie Jay.) The dog actor, whose real name is Casey, is supposed to turn and look at Spacek as the bus starts. Casey will not turn. "Today they brought a lady's kitty cat to try to capture Casey's attention," reports Floyd. "I don't know...
Adam Dwyer, a respectable lawyer and descendant of a prominent Providence family, learns that he has leukemia and roughly half a year to live. Shortly after this bad news, Dwyer's house is burglarized. He is not especially surprised, given his courtroom exposures to petty crooks and his knowledge of what goes on in his hometown. But Adam's wife Clara and teenage son Ike have received a vivid impression of how scary the world can be. Worse is to follow, not only for the Dwyers but for everyone else who figures prominently in Geoffrey Wolff's fourth novel. Providence...