Word: beate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Linford Christie--ever since he beat Carl Lewis, I have hated him--but I was near tears after he was forced to leave the track...
...market share; the game is to control maximum channels in order to ensure a sufficient outlet for ever growing streams of new and recycled programming. Thus Disney buys Capital Cities/ABC; Viacom buys Paramount and launches UPN; and so on through the merger-mad '90s. "The best way to beat back competition," says Gary Arlen, founder of the research firm Arlen Communications, based in Bethesda, Maryland, "is to have your own content and make sure your vertical integration gets the FTC's approval." For Levin, it's so far, so good...
...steam (Athens 1896, Paris 1900...Barcelona 1992), and the show was under way. In moments the stadium found itself sheathed in fabric of the five Olympic colors as members of five different tribes poured out and flew down onto the field. Little white sprites appeared, dancing to the irresistible beat and weaving their way through the tribes. Out of the delirious chaos came a formation, and presto, the tribes became the Olympic rings, and then the children became a huge white dove. All of it--the sprites, the tribesmen, the huge drums, Atlanta--all of it suddenly made perfect sense...
...movie's own cheerful irreverence clashes with more hard-hitting moments, such as the downfall of the perfect Tommy (Kevin McKidd), leading to a general unevenness, set to a techno beat. The innocence shines through now and again--a kitten in a drug den, even Renton's own face alone--only to be quickly undermined. There's nothing wrong with mixing scatological or whoops-I've-slept-with-a-transvestite humor with addiction drama, but "Trainspotting" somehow manages to fall into the sit-com, serious moment dead zone: "Goddamn it say something, Renton! Somebody say something...
...crazy images: the ceiling-crawling dead baby (an unpardonable motor mockup) of an addict friend, check; a game show about HIV (a risk with syringes, we mustn't forget), check; and a voracious bed that swallows him up, check. To repeat--and oh, but the movie does--a techno beat pounds on throughout the scene, making Renton's screaming seem that of a hard rock star rather than an addict in withdrawal. At one point, creating perhaps unintentional irony, Begbie appears to Renton: he gives him an abusive, inspirational speech that seems to mock the scene as a whole...