Word: breathlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gobs in both prosecutor Christopher Darden's In Contempt (ReganBooks; $26), written with Jess Walter, and this week's offering, defense attorney Robert Shapiro's The Search for Justice (Warner Books; $24.95), written with Larkin Warren. There are no bombshells here, but both lawyers take the reader on a breathless you-are-there ride, evoking once again all the emotions of that fevered epoch in this country's history. Which emotions, of course, depends on whose Rashomon-like tale you are reading at the time...
...Gromit's room to a pistol-packin' penguin in The Wrong Trousers or courting a sheep-napping femme fatale in A Close Shave--and Gromit will pitch us a conspiratorial sigh with a mute eloquence worthy of Buster Keaton. The put-upon pooch will then save Wallace in a breathless climax whose brio and ingenuity shame any live-action thriller...
...Boston Ballet has triumphed once again with the world premiere of "Hot and Cool." If you're looking for excitement, intrigue and beauty, look no further than the Wang Center. This is one performance guaranteed to leave both its audiences and its dancers breathless and thrilled...
...Kansas, all of which Grey is welding together. "If it weren't for Tom Grey, the people fighting this in South Dakota and Pennsylvania wouldn't know each other," says Republican Representative Frank Wolf of Virginia, chief sponsor of the study commission bill. Topeka lawyer David Schneider was breathless after Grey's tornado-like tour through Kansas last month. "Tom is an arsonist," he says. "He lights fires, and they spread...
...fore runner. Brakhage hand-paints 8, 16, 35 mm and Imax film stock sometimes using a technique which lets him paste translucent objects onto the film. Brakhage seems to tap into a deep level of emotion by projecting his tiny, beautiful swirls of color onto the large screen. The breathless tension of these intimate films reveals the influence of Davis work...