Word: damn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...movies (Ghost, Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters) with the same treatment of otherworldly experiences have numbed us to the once-ingenious plot. It's particularly ironic that his plays should seem hackneyed, since Coward's ideas broke into the conservatism of the 1940's with his sexual innuendo and fresh comedic touch. Damn that Hollywood...
Restrictions on telephone speech date back almost as far as the invention of the telephone itself. In 1883, a New York District Court upheld a telephone company's rule prohibiting the use of "improper or vulgar" language on its lines. Apparently, a Mr. Pugh had used the word "damn" in a phone conversation, and his service was discontinued. Pugh challenged the company in court but the judge ruled against him: "The telephone," wrote the judge, "reaches into many family circles. It must be remembered that it is possible, from the peculiar arrangement of the instrument, to have a communication that...
...unpersuaded by the suggestion that they will benefit from an increase in free-spending tourists. Rancher Dell LeFevre, whose land is surrounded by the monument, was told by an entrepreneur that he could get $5 million if he sold his spread to a developer. "I don't give a damn if they offer me $10 million," he asserts. "I just want to be a cowboy...
...Marlborough, to name but a dozen -- in the second longest film released by a major studio (after ?Cleopatra?). To his credit, the actor-director-adapter approached this job not as a solemn duty or an egotistical stunt, but in the sensible belief that the greatest work in dramatic literature damn well deserved to be filmed in full. Next to this, all other movie versions, from Laurence Olivier's to Mel Gibson's, seem like samplings, a Reduced Shakespeare Company run-through of Hamlet's greatest hits. "Big and pretty, vigorous, thoughtful, this ?Hamlet? expands the story with helpful flashbacks; Yorick...
...relief to say that Alan Parker's film, which opens on Christmas Day, is a pretty damn fine one, well cast and handsomely visualized--easily the best adaptation of a Broadway-style musical in decades. It is faithful to the sting and breadth of Tim Rice's libretto, to the ravishing Andrew Lloyd Webber score that synthesizes Broadway, opera and pop with the lilt of Latino lounge music. But this Evita is not just a long, complex music video; it works and breathes like a real movie, with characters worthy of our affection and deepest suspicions. For at the heart...