Word: cools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nobody is impressed with the extraordinary and supernormal events which transpire in cartoons. Cool as it looks, nobody ever says "Wow, how did they make such a great effect as to have Wile E. Coyote seem to fall off a cliff like that?" They drew it, that's how. And they can draw anything they want. Computer Generated Imaging gives special effects artists similar powers. Although GGI enables fantastic and beautiful sequences which could never before have been attempted, it also destroys the bewildering mystique of being able to portray something which the audience knows cannot actually happen...
...seductive and alienating: entrapped by circumstances, at once manipulator and manipulated, cruel and vulnerable, she makes us see her as both perpetrator and victim of her own deep-laid, cold-blooded plots. It was this problematic nature of Kate's character--or, as she phrases it with succinct deadpan cool, the "bitchy attributes"--that attracted the actress to the role, and perhaps helped her play it so well: "I didn't want to dilute her. One has to like the character one's playing...[and] take the point of view of that person...
Those on the other end of the moral spectrum, the bad guy politicos, are also continually astounded by the efficacy of Murray's secret agent man act. The stock Brit and the stock Russian, working together to revive the Cold War, marvel at his cool aplomb and heartless ability to ignore the impending torture and death that could ensue if things go wrong. The clever folks in the audience can laugh and laugh, knowing it's really ignorance that gives such calm, whereas for Wallace it's the assumption that because he paid for the ticket, his safety in this...
...After intensive, cool, calm reflection, I am morally certain that allowing this defendant on this evidence to remain convicted of second-degree murder would be a miscarriage of justice," he would be a miscarriage of justice," he wrote in his ruling...
...that IBM's massive buyback triggered the optimism. But those of us in the trenches know that it was a Merrill Lynch monster buy order of Pepsi, entered at 9:31 a.m. by the beverage company itself, that convinced many scared traders that they had better start buying. The cool calm of Pepsi opening flat--most other stocks indicated a $3 or $4 dip--changed everything. Within seconds after the opening bell, Pepsi let it be known that it would General-Jackson its own stock, standing there, Stonewall-like, right under the bid for millions of shares...