Word: crisps
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Cineplex Odeon has fulfilled Drabinsky's promise to "upgrade moviegoing to the greatest extent possible and ask the customer to pay for it." You will pay for the tuxedos and the yuppie snacks and the crisp Lucasfilm THX sound system. In Manhattan Cineplexes, you will pay $7 -- a price tag that has stoked public and official outrage. This week the New York State Assembly is expected to pass a measure that would require exhibitors to print admission prices in all newspaper ads and thus encourage theater owners to keep their costs down. Drabinsky is unmoved by the hubbub. The alternative...
...During the Tet offensive in Saigon, the police chief's arm in profile that draws a straight line through his trigger finger and by the leap of the bullet into the fear-rigid Viet Cong's brain: a crisp extinction. The weird surprise of death, the pop into non-being. In the TV version, the man falls like a short tree and his head pours neat but urgent blood upon the street, as from a vial...
...their crisp, brutal simplicities, which coexisted in surreal stagecraft with hallucinations and mirages, masterpieces of illusion and self- delusion. Many of the young, for example, cherished (almost autoerotically) the illusion that they were part of "the Revolution," a force of history that would overthrow the power structure in the U.S. And illusion was an indispensable instrument of the war effort: the "body count," for example, or the "light at the end of the tunnel," the longed-for illumination, never seen, that would indicate that victory and salvation were near. At the close of 1967, the official invocation of the light...
...BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES by Tom Wolfe. From the foibles of criminal justice in the Bronx to the follies on Wall Street, New York City and its movers and shakers are done to a crisp by the leading social satirist of his generation...
...long into the shift, the three fleet forwards got a three-on-one breakaway with Brown back. Edmonton picked Brown apart with crisp passes, and scored. The Oilers capitalized on the sudden change in momentum and eventually won the game...