Word: baring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Public nudity seemed the theme of the day, as a group of bare-chested Yalies drew a large ovation by parading around the stands--and eventually posing on the field--in formation, spelling out F-ck Harvard on their chests. How Ivy League...
With the help of Synergy, Jem rocks Gwen's bare midriffed world into oblivion. Jem is adventure. Jem is excitement. Gwen is a crap girl from a crap suburb of L.A. with a crap little "jewel" on her head. The true poseur is not hologram-enhanced Jerica but Gwen Stefani, who is about as hardcore as a piece of Chewel...
...movies like Starship Troopers to be intellectually stimulated. They don't go for profundity, for acting, or for socio-political commentary. They go to see special effects, explosions, action, and carnage. And although this movie does deliver these things with not insubstantial proficiency, it also lays bare the dangers of separating these pursuits from simple quality movie-making and of relying completely on effects to stimulate audiences. Even with the advent of computer graphics and more impressive special effects than ever--indeed, because of such advances--such an approach is bound to backfire...
...just like a good Agatha Christie heroine would; her graceful conniving reawakens police interest in the case. Mortimer even indulges in the requisite bad pun or two, when Mirry speaks of being 'dead on time' or when the ever-lustful Felix fantasizes dramatically about "making his 'quietus with a bare bodkin." The solution to the mystery is not especially convoluted and veteran mystery fans will likely guess the conclusion long before the end, but in no way will this diminish their pleasure in the consistently suspenseful final chapters...
...these scenes, the simplicity of the set design--a bare stage, whose back-drop, with its slowly changing colors and tones of light, evokes the horizon of a flat African savannah--suddenly makes its aesthetic value felt. The dancing warriors are the only thing on the stage: the tawniness and black-and-white spots of the animal skins they wear, the flowing white fur of wristlets and anklets flying with their movements, the sharp vertical movement of spears and staves and of the black-and-white geometrical design of the tall shields all convey an energy which is certainly...