Word: certain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certain point it became a real threat. Everybody knew that if the police went in, there would be a whole lot of heads broken," John says. "The guard of students continued through the day and night maybe for about a week...
...darkness and tumult, Elizabeth and Jamesremember certain details differently--he recallsthe police entering from the Widener side, whileshe says they swept in next to the John Harvardstatue. But they both agree that the violence leftthem confused and frightened...
...There was a certain incandescence in that period, that after the revolution never returned and became the tunnel-vision careerists we have now who ask during freshman registration, 'Which way to the pre-law tutor?" he says...
Sayles feels the life of this pair persuasively--no patronizing, but no false hopes either. There's nothing flighty about their romance. They come together warily, but also with a certain subtle, last-chance resolve. That's largely owing to the playing. Strathairn is one of those rare actors who make you believe it when they mime thinking. But it is Mastrantonio who is the revelation...
...fall into the darkness. On a seemingly innocent cruise with his half brother, they are beset by murderous demons out of the brother's shady past and become castaways on a deserted island--their resources (and survivalist skills) scant, the knowledge that the criminals must seek them out certain. The mood shift is wrenching--this is almost a self-contained second movie. But it's a pretty good one also, resolving as it does the relationship between adults and child and also giving Mastrantonio the chance to let some cracks in her composure begin to show. The movie...