Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years. A correction is now overdue and, when it comes, he warns, "We're going to see hurricane damage like we've never seen it before." It's not that the storms are necessarily getting more severe but that there has been massive population growth and an accompanying building boom along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. More people live between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, notes political scientist Roger Pielke Jr. of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, than occupied the entire coastline from Texas to Virginia 60 years...
...first is the total cost, which is rising at a pace that is unsustainable: 10% a year right now; even faster in 15 years or so when the baby-boom generation starts to reach retirement and decrepitude. There is simply no way that the current system can continue indefinitely. Although there is nothing magic about the years 1995 or 2002, the sooner reforms are made, the less drastic they will have...
Director Nick Reve (Steve Buscemi) is trying to shoot a mother-daughter chat, a love scene and a dream sequence. Well, maybe they're all dream sequences: Reve? What's that French for? Or all nightmares, because everything goes hilariously wrong. The boom mike dips into the frame. The dwarf feels he's being exploited. Then there's movie star Chad Palomino (James Le Gros), an idiot hunk who unaccountably thinks he's a creative artist; imagine Kato Kaelin mistaking himself for Dustin Hoffman. The film is funny without pushing it and is acted with a deft, manic touch...
...trying not to make. The acting is mostly stodgy, especially by the family trio. Burns' dialogue reeks of the page; it's cluttered with more adjectives than a D+ student paper. And when the specter of clunky writing isn't hanging over the actors, the shadow of a boom mike...
...winsomely. They annoy, a lot. The acting is mostly stodgy, especially by the family trio. Burns' dialogue reeks of the page; it's cluttered with more adjectives than a D+ student paper. And when the specter of clunky writing isn't hanging over the actors, the shadow of a boom mike...