Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the time, the show opts for subtler flecks of wit, often tucked into the edges and backgrounds of scenes. The restaurant where two characters meet (look fast) is called Ma Raison, and one of Cane's bright ideas to save the farm is something called a bran raisin...
Hopper plays Frank Booth, a murderer, maimer, drug dealer, champion cusser, beer guzzler, helium snorter and Roy Orbison fan. Chiefly, though, Frank is a psychopathic sadist who tortures and humiliates a nightclub singer (Isabella Rossellini) for his sexual pleasure. "When I got the part, I wanted to reassure David that...
All this may sound too comically exaggerated to be true, and it is. James gave readers fair warning in 1980 when he titled the first volume of this continuing autobiography Unreliable Memoirs. He cheerfully admits to rearranging details and changing names (an American writer becomes Alexander Lobrau, a construction company...
"We think C-SPAN's presence is fine as we've also been enthusiastic of public radio here," said Dean of the Kennedy School Graham T. Allison. '62. "I don't think TV cameras in a forum as large as ours will change the character of the conversation at all...
Money was king in an election won and lost on 30 second television spots. In the last decade the amount of money spent on Congressional campaigns has risen astronomically. Increased campaign costs are both a cause and an effect of the changing character of U.S. electoral politics. But until the...