Word: dankness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIPTOEING PAST THE DANK AND murk of the Manhattan neighborhood called Hell's Kitchen, you walk into a huge tent where Pomp Duck and Circumstance is performed and enter a different world. Inside the bordello-red lobby area, tuxedoed giants and midgets say hello. In an alcove, T shirts and robes with a Matisse monogram are for sale. So are the pieces of Rosenthal china on which you will dine. A bartender pours you a glass of the house Chardonnay. Nine bucks...
...Awfully Big Adventure, directed by Mike Newell (Four Weddings) and adapted by Charles Wood from Beryl Bainbridge's novel, has the convincingly seedy look--almost the dank smell--of Liverpool after World War II. Even a visiting theater troupe seem tired and tatty under their gaudy makeup. With baths a luxury, the locals can afford only to dream. That, at least, is the route taken by young Stella (Georgina Cates, in an affecting star debut), who joins the troupe and falls in love with its dashing director (Grant). For Stella he's just the wrong person: homosexual, vicious, smooth...
True Lies. At its center is a sequence in which Jamie Lee Curtis, playing Arnold Schwarzenegger's wife, is abducted, locked up in a dank cell and subjected to grievous and extensive mental torture by her temporarily estranged husband...
...Barry Dank, a sociologist at California State University at Long Beach who argues that such prohibitions "infantilize" students, has formed a loosely knit group of about 100 professors and students called Consenting Academics for Sexual Equity. He believes the spread of campus rules on romance will leave professors less accessible to students. "It's creating a paranoia that is really affecting whatever is left of an academic community," he says...
...biggest surprise was the Academy's passing over the acclaimed "Hoop Dreams" for best documentary feature, a move that "had most people's jaws dropping" and cemented a trend in which prominent commercial documentaries have been overlooked. Also unexpected, Ressner says, were the best picture nod for "Shawshank," a "dank prison film with a unwieldy title," and Woody Allen's best director nomination for "Bullets Over Broadway." Says Ressner: "It seems as though it's a 'Welcome back Woody, all is forgiven' vote...