Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last year, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which heard the Demjanjuk case when it was in the U.S., opened a probe into the conduct of Justice Department lawyers. Now Ryan is being investigated. He testified last Friday, and Judge Thomas A. Wiseman will issue a report in a few weeks to the Sixth Circuit...
...visual dazzler. Tokyo is imagined down to the last noodle shop and intersection, a place of deep night and lurid neon that looks like Blade Runner on spoiled mushrooms. It's no wonder that Akira, first released in Tokyo in 1988, is still playing the midnight-movie circuit in U.S. theaters. So far, it's not available on videotape either, which is fair enough. Laser disc -- with its superior sound and resolution -- can put Akira right behind your eyes. Watching it on tape would be like trying to get the full experience from a flip-book...
...tackle to lift a 200-lb. concrete trapdoor hidden beneath a carpet. Then it was necessary to climb down a 7-ft. ladder to a narrow passage that led to the mini-dungeon. Though it had only a camp toilet, the room was equipped with ventilation and a closed-circuit TV that enabled Esposito to keep an eye on his living quarters upstairs...
...demand. Listen carefully, and you can hear the clicking of car phones as agents rush to sign up TV-movie rights. The scriptwriters will have a field day with Katie's worst moment, on New Year's Eve, when she sat chained in her dungeon, watching on the closed-circuit television as police searched for her upstairs. "I yelled for them," she reportedly told police after her release. "But they couldn't hear me." That's been her problem all her life...
...DOMESTICATED DAVID LYNCH? IT was looking bad for a while. After giving the medium a jolt with Twin Peaks, he let the series run too long on circuit overload. His next show, On the Air, was a heavy-handed TV satire just slightly to the left of WKRP in Cincinnati. But the old, weird Lynch is back in HOTEL ROOM, an HBO trilogy of stories, two of them directed by Lynch from scripts by Barry Gifford. A hooker (Glenne Headly) is caught in a psychological sparring match between a seedy customer and his mysterious friend; a husband (Crispin Glover) tries...