Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...satisfyingly rich, juicy slice of '50s noir, and quite possibly the most deftly crafted film to emerge yet this year. Slicker and less disturbingly gritty than "Chinatown," but more bang-out entertaining, it's boosted by a a superlative cast--the crown jewel of which is a trio of masterful performances by Kevin Spacey and Aussie newcomers Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce (particularly the latter) as the unlikely LAPD allies who attempt to disinter the sordid, convoluted truth behind an apparently cut-and-dried murder case...
...more successful princesses than Diana in this world. If only the international media was not English-dominated, we in America would have had much better model female consorts to follow. Take, for instance, Princess Alexandra of Denmark. A Eurasian former economist, she works hard to improve Danish trade. Or Crown Princess Masako of Japan '85, who was able to adapt herself to a most private and ancient family without a murmur. Look at Queen Noor of Jordan. As an American woman, she had been one of the first co-eds at Princeton, studying architecture. She was an anti-Vietnam activist...
...crown it all, ten minutes after the audience learns of the incest, it is revealed that Mr. Pascal disappeared inexplicably on November 22, 1963--at precisely the same second that Kennedy was shot. Did the Pascal family carry their Kennedy obsession too far and kill him? Or is it just one of the many coincidences that abound in the House of Yes? We never quite find out, but we never stop guessing...
...during my stay in London, a biographer named Claire Tomalin, told me that to this day she converts a restaurant check back into the old pounds, shillings and pence so that she can, as she was raised to do, calculate the tip at two and six (or half a crown) for each pound...
...berth into the NCAA playoffs may hang in the balance of this critical game against Yale. Having dropped the season opener to Pennsylvania, a second-divisional loss would almost surely kill Harvard's chances at the divisional crown-and an automatic play-off spot...