Word: basic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...basic premise of the movie relies on Mr. Bean having a job and the concomitant responsibilities--things he never had to deal with before. He is a ne'er-do-well employee of London's National Art Gallery whose job security is insured by having endeared himself to the Chair of the Board. In order to get rid of Bean, the other board members vote to send him to America, passing him off as the art expert who will accompany the masterpiece "Whistler's Mother" to a museum in Los Angeles which has just purchased it. The curator...
...perhaps the most misunderstood phenomeon that has taken place at Harvard this academic year. Homosexuals would like one to believe that this is just another example of radical Christians attempting to persecute them. They are wrong. National Coming Out of Homosexuality Day is an occasion for Christians to emphasize basic doctrine and make clear to Christians everywhere the message of compassion in Christ's teachings...
Critical Care trumpets the same basic message over and over: contemporary American health care is all about money, and that's bad. The filmmakers are so busy wielding a sledgehammer of morality that they neglect a plot and characters, both style and substance. Instead, they take broad potshots at the health care machine that could have fit into a three-page pamphlet and turn them into a laborious, uncharacteristically amateurish work...
...seems that no one would want to listen to me." This painful admission slips from the lips of Catherine Sloper, the almost preternaturally shy heroine of The Heiress, currently playing at Boston's Lyric Stage. Catherine feels this way for good reason. Her father, Dr. Austin Sloper, is your basic 19th-century Frigidaire, almost biologically incapable of emotion except when criticizing his daughter or remembering the wife who died giving birth...
...need political reform. We need basic human rights," he said. "But we should not hold human rights as a hostage...