Word: butte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Actresses with a wide range like Polley's thrive at Sundance because many movies there take risks with compelling, quirky characters. Where Hollywood favors vapid females whose greatest apotheosis is a kiss, indies prefer complex women who can also kick butt. "Independent films almost have a province when it comes to portraying strong women," says festival programming chief Geoffrey Gilmore. "They're not just the archetypal roles of the girlfriend, the wife or even the women who get together to cry. Actresses get to play the kind of fully fleshed-out characters who just aren't in most studio scripts...
...small part of me hoped I was. Because I would definitely be the center of attention at my high school reunion. "Yeah, Keri, I like it. There's a lot of paperwork, but mostly it's making speeches, erasing borders and working on my butt-kicking moves for the big Christ fight. Here's my card, babe. Call...
Rather than sympathizing with the oppressed, Oppenheim chooses to make them the butt of his feeble jokes. Of course, Oppenheim concludes his column by admitting that "this is probably poor advice," which begs the question why he bothered to give it in the first place. DAVID...
Surely the French deconstructionist Michel Foucault must be deployed. Football enacts the Foucaultian paradigm wherein all actions, even involuntary motions or "fakes" or failures (quarterback sacked), coalesce in meaning, and everything that the game organizes in the way of objects, rites, customs (the superstitious butt slapping, the narcissistically erotic Bob Fosse touchdown dances) constitutes a coherent whole--the game lui-meme. Foucault saw pro football as the quintessential mutation of the Classical quadrilateral of language into the Modern anthropological quadrilateral. Actually, he didn't. But it amuses me to think he might have. Ha ha, Boomer Esiason...
RICK SCHRODER Former kid actor, now rookie on NYPD Blue, steps into big shoes and kicks butt...