Word: bites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These paintings start the train of American fantasy that will lead to San Simeon and Caesars Palace. They are wildly corny but in a weird way convincing: they bite off so much more than they can chew that you can't help assenting to them. And the target of their moralizing is none other than Andrew Jackson, who Cole (and many of his patrons) feared was becoming an American Caesar, filling the once virtuous republic with the corruptions of opportunism. It seems that Cole the landscapist and Cole the magniloquent history painter were not, as was once thought, different artists...
...special effects are appropriately muted, confined mostly to Cranston's "invisible" exploits, although there is a really cool live knife that has a tendency to bite the hand holding it. It's all about control, of course...
Heightened awareness may also help add bite to laws that are on the books but are often underenforced. At present, 25 states require arrest when a reported domestic dispute turns violent. But police often walk away if the victim refuses to press charges. Though they act quickly to separate strangers, law-enforcement officials remain wary of interfering in domestic altercations, convinced that such battles are more private and less serious...
...occult to find out what he can do for his little hairy problem. The sage/doctor, played by Om Puri, informs Will that his transformation will be permanent with the next full moon unless he wears the medallion which he gives him. In return the doctor asks for will to bite him. Old and close to death, the doctor would rather live life as a tyrannical werewolf than die. With his old wrinkled hand held limply in front of his face, the audience is held in suspense as to whether Will will actually bite him. In his gentlemanly manner, Will politely...
...acting which Nicholson can muster. Predictably enough, Stewart has been infected by the disease when Will snapped at him in a fight and cut his hand. He arrives at the estate and decides to seek his revenge. After running over the gatekeeper of the estate and taking a voracious bite out of another guard's neck, he heads for the barn. And who should he run into on his way over but Laura. In what the struggle which ensues, Stewart attempts to rape Laura while Will bounces off the walls of the stall. Shot in slow motion, director Mike Nichols...