Word: chew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just hang around and chew the fat Then I'll carry you over to my place And we'll cook some dinner after that...
...Pearl, a script about Janis Joplin, and had it rewritten, Midler says, "as a homage to all those men and women who bit the dust from sheer compulsion." That was The Rose. "I had a ball! I couldn't wait each day to strap on that angst bag and chew up that scenery. I thought it was my best work." Seen today, The Rose looks ragged, with dramatic longueurs randomly interspersed with explosions, but that is part of its surly authenticity. And Midler, deglamourized as Joplin and vulnerable as her own private self, creates a gorgeous image of tenacious stardom...
Also worth a note is the frame-sequences, featuring a skinny dinosaur and a fat...a fat something arguing in a movie theater on a show called "Freak Previews." The resemblances are amazing, as are the levels of violence reached as the two chew each other out. As it were...
Most hackers don't have to write papers during finals; all they do is chew endless no-doz's and hand in final computer programming projects. Unfortunately, the Happy Hacker made the mistake of being a Social Studies major and was thus saddled with numerous papers and exams during January; thus the temporary disappearance of this column...
Still, if some cynical calculation attended the making of Hoosiers, some honest craft went into it as well. Someone remembered, or went to the trouble of finding out, how it felt to live in a small Midwestern town in the 1950s, when there was nothing better to chew on than last week's game and nothing better to savor than next Friday's. By laconically contrasting images of despair and hope -- bleak winter fields and the throbbing heat and noise of a jam-packed gym in the fourth quarter when the game is close -- Director Anspaugh achieves an admirable objectivity...