Word: braved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...section man, ill at ease under the best circumstances, had no idea how to manage such a crisis and insisted we get down to business. some brave soul--was it Mary Butler? Ben White?--finally suggested that no one was in the mood for "Mother Courage," and we were dismissed...
...about stolen guns. The idea was to push the action to a level of excess where it turns parodistically comic, and this is done expertly. They've brought back Joe Pesci as a goofy cop buff, added Rene Russo as the love interest for Riggs -- a policewoman as crazily brave as he is -- and made a cheerfully amoral movie that cannily caters to and satirizes our passion for cinematic violence...
...Gates of Ivory can be read profitably with no knowledge of the novels that lead up to it. But Drabble's trilogy, now complete, stands as an ungainly, brave and penetrating attempt to find a place for fiction in the matter-of-fact way we live...
...Blockbuster coming -- get out of the way! The competition is stepping aside for Batman Returns: no other studio movie opens that weekend. Does Hollywood think everybody is going to just one movie on June 19? Have the bosses forgotten the lesson of 1989, when brave little Disney opened Honey, I Shrunk the Kids the same day that Batman opened and eventually earned $130 million for the $10 million comedy? Mark Canton, president of Columbia Pictures, hopes there is room for the long shots, the Lil E. Tees, to sprint past the big-budget Arazis. "Our films aren't supertankers...
LIFE IN THE PARAPLEGIC WARD HASN'T changed much since Marlon Brando and friends first showed us around in The Men 42 years ago. The guys are still alternately bitter and brave, and they ultimately learn to bond with one another. Sex remains for them, of course, a scary and tragic issue. But if THE WATERDANCE has nothing new to say about its subject, at least it speaks in an engaging voice: soft, literate, modest. Probably because Neal Jimenez, its writer (and co-director with Michael Steinberg), is writing autobiographically, he is less concerned with melodramatic invention than...