Word: baring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel like doing tonight?" "I don't know, what do you feel like doing?" Today they'd just turn on The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or NYPD Blue and enjoy the best that contemporary American entertainment has to offer. What they would make of Dennis Franz's bare butt is harder...
Equally controversial, but for its violence, "Natural Born Killers" perhaps best demonstrates the thin line that filmmakers tread in trying to "send a message." Although director Oliver Stone obviously seeks to lay bare the media-crazy, hyped-up, and knocked-down society we live in, we begin to question his methods when his satire goes too far. With alarmingly fast-paced cuts, murders flicker by in the blink of an eye, only to disturb, perhaps deeply, just moments later. The cry of "That's the point!" can only go so far in defending movies that, in truth, are pounding...
...doubtless) starving artists who bare their souls in the five flicks included in the festival all have particular, frequently opaque, obsessions. Rather than plot or acting, "Krazy Teens USA" makes the best use of its own fascination with the culture of Long Island mall-rats gone astray, Although initially engaging, the mutant-weirdo world of "Lick of Fury" eventually plays like a simple stream of sight gags or even private jokes. And "Dienstag, Once Upon a Tuesday" which tracks an adolescent serial killer who succombs to a weekly yen, pulls all the strings of the horror genre so many times...
...last election, he points out, "I got 62% of the vote." The constituencies of the West have been changing, however. Out-of-staters looking for a better life have flowed into places like Colorado and New Mexico, bringing concerns over development. Even as Utah's Hansen was pushing his bare-bones wilderness proposal, polls showed that a majority of his constituents wanted more wilderness set aside. Says Ken Rait of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance: "He calls what he's doing 'The will of the West.' But which West is he talking about?'' For now, it's Hansen's idea...
Will such efforts develop beyond bare beginnings? Much may depend on Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali; and his record in promoting reform is, to put it charitably, mixed. One example: while the U.N. generates a mountain of policy statements and proclamations about women's rights, its own record as an equal-opportunity employer is poor. By this year women were supposed to hold 25% of executive jobs, but the actual figure will be only about 16.6%. The reason, says Ciceil Gross, former president of the Group on Equal Rights for Women at the U.N., is that "there is no will...