Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With a weary body and a full stomach, Wilford gets his first chance to crack the books at around...
...Albert Finney), a slightly kooky science-fiction writer on his way to Midland City to attend the town's Fine Arts Festival as the guest of honor. When the divergent paths of these two strangers ultimately intersect, all hell breaks loose. For good measure, Nick Nolte takes a second crack at a Vonnegut adaptation (he starred in a movie version of Mother Night) as Harry LeSabre, Dwayne's closet-transvestite salesman...
...Three To Tango, Perry's latest crack at big-screen stardom, the actor finds himself paired oh-so-cutely with Neve Campbell, an actress who has a become a bit of an enigma herself. Too mature to continue dabbling in teen flicks but still too young and cherubic to be taken seriously in adult fare, Campbell has shifted into that rare phase of an acting career in which she doesn't quite seem to fit in anywhere. Poor Neve. First she was abused all last season on "Party of Five," and now she's stuck in acting limbo...
...with both murder and robbery rates now at their lowest levels since the late 1960s. The overall violent crime rate - the total number of assaults, robberies, rapes and murders per 100,000 people - is now 566, just a little above where it was in 1985, the last year before crack became a popular (and murderous) activity. Guns were still responsible for the majority of murders (64.9 percent) but that figure represents a continued downward trend, dropping from 67.8 percent...
...encores as a way to keep the audience enthusiastic. It is surprising that this logic is new to the group. McNeely privately complains that some of the guys are committing the ultimate faux pas, talking to each other, across the stage, during their numbers. They make mistakes: Voices crack, chords go out of tune and Liang has to signal one of his earnest-looking friends to make more of an effort to cut off with the rest off the group, since he's breaking later than everyone else and sticking out. On a shuttle bus provided by their clients...