Word: contentedness
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Fashions in movie genres hit Hollywood in successive waves of benign silliness. Remember the gang-war cycle, the roller-disco pix, the movies about movie stuntmen? Now there's another improbable genre: Noah's ark meets the road movie. Within the past year, three films have told the...
To help explain its case abroad, the Baghdad government already had sent Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz to Moscow and Paris. He assured the Soviets, who apparently were as much surprised by the outbreak of war as the Americans, that Baghdad's goals were limited, but he also pressed...
Maybe shallow people need a shallow writer to chronicle their exploits. More likely, though, there are very few shallow people, at least shallow and interesting people. More than likely, it is the writer's attempts that are too superficial, not his subject's lives and thoughts. There is nothing rotten...
On such occasions, court watchers customarily try to ascertain where the court as a whole stands, whether it is moving toward conservatism or liberalism, toward activism or judicial restraint. The only answer is that the court is deeply divided. The four cases decided last week produced a total of no...
Mostly, he did, though the Motion Picture Academy, which likes to give its awards to people who trumpet the loftiness of their themes, contented itself with nominating Hitchcock five times as best director. The only Oscar he got was a career-end special. Even after his death last week at...