Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Simple and Raising Arizona; they now seek the extra fillip of incident and character in the corner of every frame. Each of the hard gents in Miller's Crossing finds his own space and his own reasons for pushing others out of it. Leo, for example, is given a blaze of glory as he defends his life against Caspar's goons. To the strains of Danny Boy he strides from his home, machine gun flaring, a dinosaur who refuses to die. "The old man," one friend says wistfully, "is still an artist with the Thompson." The Coens are artists...
...rogues' gallery of gangster films this fall, GoodFellas and Miller's Crossing blaze and strut their way out front. -- Clint Eastwood tackles the myth of filmmaker John Huston...
...does Bok spare the universities themselves. There, he asserts, too many scholars view their research merely in terms of their own advancement within a field, and are therefore reluctant to blaze trails in difficult new areas that offer little prestige...
...public outcry when a TV personality is pushed toward unwilling retirement typically resembles a Roman candle on the Fourth of July: the blaze is bright but brief, the heat evanesces, and all that lingers is a fond memory in the mind's eye. That is how it has gone for even the biggest stars, from Red Skelton to Walter Cronkite. NBC doubtless imagined it would be no different when it undertook to freshen the Today show by easing veteran co- anchor Jane Pauley toward the sidelines. But in the eight months since Pauley announced she would resign from the show...
...prestigious magazine and book divisions, the shadowy family style has been supplanted by a blaze of glitz and color and -- increasingly -- by tumult...