Word: block
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, the newest and most popular kid on the information age block--the Internet--has a bottomless pit of useless information ranging from self-aggrandizing "homepages" to www.nosepicker.com...
Cambridge Police were called to the scene from HUPD headquarters. The site of the robbery, although a block away from HUPD headquarters and a frequently used path by students walking from the Radcliffe Quadrangle to Harvard Square, does not lie within HUPD's jurisdiction, sa HUPD spokesperson Peggy McNamara...
...fragmented, occasionally surrealistic style meant to reflect the mental state of its protagonist, Deconstructing Harry tells the story of Harry Block (Allen) a--surprise--neurotic writer with a penchant for antidepressants, prostitutes and incorporating the details of his personal life into his literature. For the first time in his life, he's suffering from writer's block--get it? Harry...Block. Via flashbacks and vignettes representing Block's fiction, the film relates the author's psychosexual hangups, difficulties with fidelity and issues with religion. The movie is loosely structured around Block's repeated attempts to find someone to accompany...
...Woody, and as such, Deconstructing Harry is not without its moments. Late in the film comes a brilliant, enormously funny sequence in which Harry descends into Hell for a chat with the Devil (Billy Crystal, having the time of his life)--who, incidentally, is an old friend who stole Block's nubile young student-girl-friend (Elisabeth Shue '88). Most of the humor here is fresh, dead-on and perfectly timed. From the miscellaneous tortured souls ("What did you do?" "I invented aluminum siding") in the netherworld to its wonderfully nefarious ruler ("I ran a Hollywood studio for two years...
...classic Allen themes, but in its hurry to make an all-emcompassing (and, in the end, annoyingly elliptical) statement about the artist's relationship to his work, fails to develop any of these to the fruition reached in Allen's earlier works. None of the characters (except Block, who turns out to be annoying, vulgar and uninteresting) are given enough attention to function in any mode other than one directly dependent on Allen's character...