Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gordimer takes risks with Hillela. Feminists may not be happy with a character whose identity and importance depend so thoroughly on the men she sleeps with. Early in the novel the author starts dropping hints that Hillela will someday be famous, and that of course is what happens. The former...
When independent filmmakers team up with major studios, the drawbacks of working for a big company suddenly hit home. Director Spike Lee, whose 1986 picture She's Gotta Have It earned $7 million on a $200,000 budget, recently caught flak from executives of Columbia Pictures, the Coca-Cola subsidiary...
At first glance, Moonlighting isn't about much. The mystery plots are slight and derivative: so many bogus suicides and murders have been staged that the show could be subtitled "101 Ways to Remake Vertigo." But Shepherd, as the straitlaced ice queen, and Willis, as the wisecracking clod-with-a...
Similarly, New Englanders who cherish the lingeringly greasy Cape Cod chips, old-fashioned and hand cooked in Hyannis, will find no clue on the package that the company now belongs to Anheuser-Busch. Even Pringle's, the faux chips formed of dehydrated potatoes, now comes in a variety of flavors...
The new couples tapes have at least a vague story line, an interesting location and far more foreplay than films aimed primarily at male audiences. Conventional porn films were considered slow getting started if there were fewer than three or four sex bouts in the first ten minutes. Impatient males...