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Word: betweeners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Through body language and sound, the players vented their frustrations, joys and feelings to one other and the audience. They emerge from a cocoon of joyful noise as characters and personalities--the joker, the bully, the runt--whose only means of expression is the fervent beat of a drum. Each...

Author: By Brian R. Walsh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Stompin' at the Wilbur | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

The film's heart is the forced relationship between two dramatically different residents of the same New York apartment complex. Robert De Niro is Walt Koontz, a bigoted former cop, while Philip Seymour Hoffman is Rusty, a drag queen desperate for a sex change. When Walt suffers a stroke while...

Author: By By DANIEL A. zweifach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wasted Talent Makes Flawless a Drag | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

The scene-stealer is Hoffman, who follows up on his fine work in Happiness and Boogie Nights. With his undulating voice and quick reversals of emotion, he nicely portrays Rusty's painful limbo between lonely man and gaudy transvestite. Reading in between his frequently trite lines, Hoffman exposes Rusty's...

Author: By By DANIEL A. zweifach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wasted Talent Makes Flawless a Drag | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

Who knew these guys, hereto far from firebrands, were looking for a knock-down, drag-out fight? "Gore and Bradley have so many similar ideas, and at a time when voters seem to be yearning for someone new, and looking for a fresh start, Gore really has no choice but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Al 'Internet' Gore Can't Afford to Play Dirty | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

Fortunately, for NASA, the second time's the charm - or so it seems. On Friday, the space agency's engineers celebrated the fact that, as far as they could tell, the second of their two $100 million Martian landers didn't get lost in space. All indications were that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Polar Lander Hits, Then Gets Ready to Listen to Mars | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

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