Word: cues
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whose entire life has been a drama broadcast into living rooms suddenly realizes that even his most natural moments occur according to a rehearsed script. Though we laughed when his wife looked directly into the camera to advertise a cooking product and when the show's director prompted, "Cue the sun!", the movie's emotional center was Truman's exit. The movie broke out of being simply another meditation on the control of the media and the audience's complicity in "to be continued" plot lines...
...Clinton took his cue from The Truman Show, he'd know that he can't keep blaming the media forever. At some time, we're all going to get tired of thinking about a story's "spin" and come back to wonder whether there is, in fact, a story to tell. After all, even though we, the television audience, know it's ridiculous for Ally McBeal to keep hearing secrets in the law firm's bathroom, we still forgive it, for sake of unfolding the plot. Heck, it is TV, and she has to find out somehow...
...Like love itself, of course, no one can. As in these desolate and beautiful stories, Painted from Memory suggests, we too may linger on the comforting ache of love remembered, complicit in our own exquisite misery. Misery, after all, is just another kind of tenderness, only slightly transposed. Cue the strings, the fashionable flugelhorns. I'm with Costello and Bacharach: I'll take the memories...
...state employee who received a large raise before she resigned last year to spend more time with her family. Those accounts and widespread rumors, which have appeared in print with no evidence to back them up, helped persuade lawyers for the state Democratic Party to take a cue from Starr and file a Freedom of Information Act request last June demanding the official schedule of Beasley and his key aides, including state credit-card receipts, e-mail, computer records and recorded phone messages. "We need to find out what he has been doing for the past four years and whether...
...when CUE Guide Editor-in-Chief Ona M. Hahs '99 was searching for the true identity (or lack thereof) of Ulf Fireloins a.k.a. "Fuerloin," she asked Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences John M. Doyle if he could confirm his colleague's existence...