Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does a beautiful woman carry a gun in FINAL ANALYSIS? Because "there are a lot of lunatics out there!" At least three of them are at large in this steamy Hitchcock knockoff -- mostly from Vertigo. A psychiatrist (Richard Gere, with his famous hair and casual sexual authority) blunders into toxic relationships with two wily sisters (Kim Basinger and Uma Thurman). Soon, despite her married bondage to creepy contractor Eric Roberts, Basinger takes Gere to bed. Their mandatory sex scene is shot in tiger stripes of light and shadow, as if it were an R-rated outtake from the Nature series...
...gloriously contrary society despises lawyers with openhearted loathing (to exactly the degree, in fact, that it loves lawsuits). Anyone who doubts this should consider John Grisham's 1991 thriller, The Firm. At a casual look, The Firm was a competent, but fairly routine, on-the-run-pursued-by-nasties page turner. But it stayed on the New York Times best-seller list for an entire year, something accomplished by nothing but Dr. Seuss books and the kind of self-help manual that advises you to Hate Your Way to a Firmer, More Youthful Figure. The explanation -- to the extent that...
...Baker's casual dismissal of the refugees' claims is inadequate. The refugee project of the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights condemned the State Department's investigation as cursory and superficial. Arthur Helton, director of the refugee project, countered Baker by asserting that the government has an obligation to prove that the refugees' allegations are false before sending them back to potential danger...
...Cousin Vinny may not be the world's most auspicious title for a film that seeks to transcend the simplistic implications those three words suggest. Indeed, the casual moviegoer merely expecting Italian-American stereotypes would find that assumption only half accurate...
...Anyone who has more than a casual memory of the campaign gut fighter and unindicted co-conspirator of the Watergate cover-up will be irresistibly tempted to say "Look who's talking about morality" and snort in derision. So snort -- and then pay attention. This time, the man is right...