Word: bladed
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Ford's film credits include "American Graffiti," "Apocalypse Now," "Blade Runner," "Working Girl," "Presumed Innocent," Patriot Games," The Fugitive" and "Clear and Present Danger." His most recent film is the 1995 remake of the Humphrey Bogart classic "Sabrina...
...with his Fish, 1930: a 6-ft. blade of mottled, blue-gray marble, which floats above a circular "pond" of creamy limestone. It resembles a large weather vane, and, in fact, it is mounted on hidden ball bearings, so that it can turn. The form of the blade is very pure and yet somehow indeterminate; it has no trace of fins, gills or other fishy attributes. It is more like the shadow of a fish in perfectly clear water, a gray flicker cast on the riverbed below, whose pebbles are suggested by the white streaks and mottling within the stone...
...deeply versed in the politics of failure." Of a newly alcoholic reporter who covers the killings, McNamee observes, "He had somehow acquired the psychic credentials of the drinker, the sad, proclaiming spirit." There is an eerie exactness in these passages that pins meaning to the wall with a knife blade. Now and then, as in his evocation of a mother's "low-keyed and costly cries of love," his reach for the stinging, pivotal word--that "costly" fails the "huh?" test--produces a clinker. But McNamee is a writer, a name to mark down...
...stairway of Norman Bates' creepy old house, his cautious tread accompanied by a few high-pitched notes in the violins, pregnant with mystery and menace. As he reaches the landing, a door flies open in a glint of flashing steel: suddenly the strings shriek rhythmically, as the knife blade slashes down and the stricken cop topples backward to his death in a symphony of pizzicato cellos and basses. We not only see his death; we hear it as well...
...superficial pleasures--like some clever production design and the splendor of a fight between two gorgeous women, Diane Lane and Joan Chen--Judge Dredd couldn't have worse timing. For one thing, it surfaces at the end of a 15-year line of dark sci-fi films; imagine Blade Runner inside a Tron video game. For another, the movie tries for the same combination of facetiousness and majesty that Batman Forever mined only two weeks before. Dredd, written by Michael De Luca, William Wisher and Steven de Souza, plays like an instant clone of the Gotham Gothic...