Word: crackerjacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lead prosecutor was Richard E. Trodden, a former high school teacher who has been known to hang pictures of W.B. Yeats, Winston Churchill and Sir Thomas More in his office. And presiding over the case was Judge Benjamin N.A. Kendrick, a triathlete, marathoner, in-line skater and crackerjack darts player...
Wilder's and Diamond's writing is crackerjack, and Wilder's direction snappy and inspired, but the success of "Some Like It Hot" rests primarily on its legendary cast. Marilyn Monroe is sweet and voluptuous, and gets to sing "I want to Be Loved by You." Curtis acquits himself with grace, especially in the millionaire bit. Joe E. Brown gives an impeccable performance, the apogee of a lifetime of acting...
...looking for a whiz-banging pageturner, an unputdownable crackerjack, a humdinging literary tour de force, a ripping yarn, look elsewhere. Laurie Colwin has written several delightful, original books. Her last, A Big Storm Knocked It Over, isn't one of them...
...Dramatic crackerjack that it is, Fuente Ovejuna still lands its director in all sorts of difficulties. Lope de Vega sticks to the courtly writing conventions of his day: his shepherds display admirable eloquence, intellectual curiosity and a penchant for Socratic dialogue; his washerwomen have quicker wits and sharper tongues than Oscar Wilde, and all his characters indulge a fondness for spontaneous poetry in the throes of battle, rape and torture. Nor did the author subscribe to total proletarian emancipation: Subcurrents of aristocratic patronage and the social contract irk modern-day viewers. And the script deserves to be adopted...
Richard B. Darman--After a term as Bush's crackerjack economics adviser, Darman should use his expertise on other desperate tasks. He's probably qualified to count the number of hamburgers served at McDonald...