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Word: boringness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Its very title is mystifying. It seems to belong on a memoir by a minor, faintly boring old poet. It perches rather uneasily atop a story in which Robert, a sweet, dim maintenance man (a woofly Ewan McGregor), replaced by a robot, decides to revenge himself on his rich, cruel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: IN A WAY, EXTRAORDINARY | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

In the dark, claustrophobic interior settings of his previous films, Boyle captured a great deal of energy caged up in a small space; even simple scenes in Trainspotting were crackling with intensity. In the great outdoors of America, though, Boyle seems lost, taking in the luscious scenery with huge, flat...

Author: By Jordan I. Fox, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Lifeless 'Ordinary' | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

But the real reason to see this film is the band in concert; it's there that Jarmusch's best film work emerges. Alternating between up close-and-personal stage shots and seemingly unrelated imagery (traffic on a tree-lined highway, fans in Ireland waiting for a concert), he never...

Author: By Brandon K. Walston, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Paying Tribute to the Young and Crazy | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

It is difficult to believe that this is the reaction that the play's producers wanted to provoke. The problem is that whatever the reason behind Colapinto's self-centered, petulant rendition of Macbeth--be it poor judgement, a deliberate attempt at experimentation, or sheer incompetence--it undermines the drama...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Strutting and Fretting Upon the Stage (For Three Hours) | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

Those who have regrets keep them to themselves. The rest of us regularly offer up our judgments every five years, when Harvard asks its graduates, male and female, to write about themselves for the class "Redbook," a "collective autobiography of triumphs and failures, bragging and tales of woe." As the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADCLIFFE '67: THE WAY WE ARE | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

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