Word: burglarizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Technically, the lighting was masterful. The play begins in the dark during the robbery; as the viewer's eyes adjust, the scene becomes clearer and the viewer can make out the furtive burglar by faint light from a window. While stuck in pitch black, the viewer empathizes with Ata and her fear: however, this is the only time in the play one feels any empathy for any of the characters. However, the dramatic silences were violated by the annoying and incessant buzzing hum of the lights...
...iconic import, of the strength and frailty of stardom in late middle age. So is Absolute Power, the movie that fleshes out this hunk of granite. Many of its leading actors were born before the Rushmore carvings were completed in 1941. Eastwood, directing himself as a cat burglar on his eighth or ninth life, is 66, as is Gene Hackman, who plays a sexually reckless U.S. President. E.G. Marshall, in the role of the President's adviser, is 86 and counting. The plot is a doomsday version of Bill Clinton's Paula Jones problem, but the theme is impending mortality...
Screenwriter William Goldman, 65, working from the David Balducci novel, asks you to believe that the burglar has hidden behind a two-way mirror in a room where the President is having nasty sex with his adviser's young wife--and that our larcenous hero does nothing to stop her murder. This old-style thriller sometimes creaks in its joints as it adds an amoral aide (Judy Davis), a canny cop (Ed Harris) and a Secret Service agent (Scott Glenn) as weary as the one Clint played in In the Line of Fire. But Eastwood is less interested in political...
...picture of life in "Woody's World," where abortion rights would be curtailed, assault weapons plentiful and--a cornerstone of his campaign--the income tax would be replaced by a regressive national sales tax. Jenkins, who made a name for himself in the legislature by sponsoring a "shoot-the-burglar" law and carrying a plastic fetus to abortion debates, made no attempt to temper his conservative views. He counted on the rising Republican tide in the state and strong support from groups such as the Christian Coalition and Gun Owners of America to put him over the top. Landrieu...
...which David Wayne Dunford died. Shortly after cells in the C1 block of Virginia's Powhatan Correctional Center clanged open for Sunday breakfast on March 3, 1985, someone padlocked Dunford's cell, splashed flammable liquid through the bars and tossed in a lighted match. Dunford, a burglar, died in agony nine days later without naming his murderer...