Word: cravenness
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...holiday Wes Craven wants to be home for is Halloween. Even on Christmas he'll try to scare you. Here, the auteur of A Nightmare on Elm Street offers a Crueltide treat about a serial killer with an enshlocklopedic knowledge of scare-film tropes, from the Friday the 13th hockey mask to the Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer TV helmet. In one of the cute touches from Kevin Williamson's script, this psycho wears an Edvard Munch "Silent Scream" mask while taunting and then killing a frantic young woman (Drew Barrymore) alone in the dark. But that's just...
...Murphy and Sipple later surmised that Reed thought then--even if he hadn't yet persuaded Dole--that Jack Kemp would be the vice-presidential nominee. The tax cut had to come before the convention to make the choice of a pro-growth supply-sider more logical--and less craven...
...Clinton, of course, is a devious, unprincipled, opportunistic, promise-anything, craven, lying, manipulative antiself capable of any treachery in the service of his own ambitions. (They said the same thing about Franklin Roosevelt...
...denunciations of affirmative action when he had supported civil rights since the '60s. It didn't help his credibility to attack Hollywood moguls for making movies that he hadn't taken the time to go see. His sudden embrace of $548 billion in tax cuts last week sounded craven coming from someone who had fought against deficits and snarled at supply-side theory for more than a decade. Ohio Governor George Voinovich once declared that "I'm staying with him because I believe that he doesn't believe all that crap his handlers have been having...
...violence of color and angle. The shots of the yacht on the open sea show the true brutality of blue and white when sea, ship, and sky seem to continually lunge against each other and fight for dominance of the screen. Views of Italy are made to seem as craven and far from redemption as the protagonists themselves. There seems a matter-of-fact weariness even to the children at play in the street, as if to sense that their lives will never lose this frivolous emptiness, that the games will only get more complex, the stakes higher. The soundtrack...