Word: bravest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scared. It was very stimulating. In my films I celebrate the imagination as a tool of great creation and a device for the ultimate scream, and even as a kid I liked pushing myself to the brink of terror and then pulling back. In the morning I was the bravest guy -- little seven-year-old Steven walking around the closet, or talking to the trees, saying, "I'm not afraid of you." But once night fell, all bets were...
...addition to the best and the brightest, the class of '58 has the bravest. Jason Gilbert, a thoroughly assimilated Jewish Adonis and the school's finest tennis player, surprises all by becoming a superhero in one of Israel's elite antiterrorist units. The last two in Segal's crimson quintet are Townie Theodore Lambros, son of a Greek restaurant owner, who fulfills his ambition to be a Harvard professor; and Banker Andrew Eliot, whose family ties to the university go back 300 years. For the record, the women in the book are all beautiful, intelligent and interchangeable...
Enough to make Fathers Playing Catch with Sons an off-season refreshment. Hall is a bullpen man, not a starter. He is best over a short distance, writing verses about oldtimers' day ("On a green field/ we observe the ruin/ of even the bravest body") or recalling poets devoted to baseball. The game, he reveals, is not always an ennobling or enlightening muse. Walt Whitman covered some contests for the Brooklyn Eagle and in old age asked a friend if it was true that "the fellow who pitches the ball aims to pitch it in such a way the batter...
...chance to establish character is, for an actress, the equivalent of an operatic soprano hitting a high E-flat on her first note. Holly Hunter, who has to come on cold every night at the Manhattan Theater Club and open the show with this scene, is clearly the bravest performer currently working in New York City...
...keeps slipping away into stylistic eccentricity. In one sense, then, Rumble Fish is Coppola's professional suicide note to the movie industry, a warning against employing him to find the golden gross. No doubt: this is his most baroque and self-indulgent film. It may also be his bravest...