Word: dab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...piece has some eerily effective moments. The sponging of a condemned man's head makes electrocution seem a sacrament: baptism and extreme unction in a single dab. The healing scenes will evoke tears, some of them earned. And there's a lot of sharp acting, led by Hanks' pained restraint. The two villains are vigorously portrayed: a sadistic, craven guard (Doug Hutchison) and a strutting, rabid inmate (played with a daringly lunatic, dark-star quality by Sam Rockwell), whose crimes are even worse than we feared. At the core, though, one finds a slacky, sappy film. The human mystery that...
...voters of all stripes is still his biggest asset. But it takes a lot of energy to maintain. Bush has stretched himself so thin to span the issues that his support tends to be shallow; voters who like him often can't say why. But if his ideology--a dab of conservatism here, a touch of moderation there--remains difficult to pin down, that is precisely the idea. His self-styled New Republican approach continues to draw supporters from across his party's ideological spectrum. By emphasizing issues like education, for example, Bush is attracting women voters at levels other...
...used to imagine my own life as a cooking show, with an army of invisible vegetable-chopping elves, a lifetime supply of those miniature glass bowls that hold no more than a dab of anchovy paste, and children who gladly eat dishes with French names and 23 ingredients. Then I realized that show would have to run on the Sci-Fi Channel...
Guitarist JK has created a terrific background album: something you can slip on as you sit in traffic, wash dishes, spend time with your significant other. This is smooth jazz with a dab of soul: most of the songs are instrumentals featuring JK's pleasant if unadventurous guitar stylings. But on a handful of tracks Robyn Springer and Gerrell Gaddis sing, and the CD comes to life. When Springer takes the lead on Ain't It Good to Know, the album leaps to the foreground. You pull over in traffic, put down the dishes, cuddle closer and just listen...
...premise sounds surely irritating, but the final product betrays the trite-sounding plot line. Wallace Ritchie (Bill Murray) is a high school actor whose ambitions landed him smack dab behind the counter of his local Blockbuster video store. His brother (Peter Gallagher of sex, lies and videotape fame), on the other hand, is a smooth talking well-dressed I-banker in London. Wallace decides to drop in on his brother for his birthday (thankfully Gallagher saves us a reprise of his recent flop To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday). The brother, James, freaks, being on the cusp of a multimillion...