Word: chandler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have someplace to go. In Friends the crowd is always around to share their latest personal woes or offer a shoulder to cry on. But who would want advice from these dysfunctional morons, with their obsessive pop-culture references? "Guess what?" says Rachel, bursting in with good news. Cracks Chandler: "The fifth dentist caved, and now they're all recommending Trident...
...Simpson trial taking place at the L.A. County courthouse. It is the Los Angeles Music Center Opera's sensational new production of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande, currently on view at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion a couple of blocks away. In a season distinguished by compelling, innovative stagings of Strauss's Elektra and Handel's Xerxes, the new Pelleas offers yet more proof that for consistent excellence the still fledgling company is already the equal of its older and more established American rivals...
...father, and eventually she accompanies him to Lisbon, where he promises to substantiate his story. That story is what follows. Why introduce it in such a distracting way? Maybe the author indulged in a little showboating. He is an expert mimic of the Hollywood hardboiled school, typified by Raymond Chandler. Good nostalgic fun, but Boyd shares Chandler's awkwardness in writing from a woman's point of view, so Fischer's observations fall a bit flat...
...Chandler Burr, a freelancer writing a book on the biology of homo sexuality, said the Family Research Council, a conservative think tank, uses psychiatrist William Byne's critical review of the data on a possible genetic basis for homosexuality as support for their contention that it is chosen, and hence mutable...
...restoration of social order. Himself a victim of tragedy and public scandal, Polanski knows that injustice is far more prevalent than happy endings, and the dramatic impact is effective. Yet, other aspects of the film thwart this attempt at originality. Polanski wanted to evoke the world of the Raymond Chandler detective novels, without imitating the look of the black and white classics of the 1930s. Although "Chinatown" was filmed in color, the resemblance to the old Holly-wood thrillers veers towards imitation...