Word: daring
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...intellectual. She is best when playing herself, or at least he persona. The restaurant scenes in which Madonna must play the bitchy and racy superstar Sarah Jennings (even her name isn't convincing) and tell bawdy jokes are reminiscent of her "performance" in the docu-drama "Truth of Dare." Madonna can play Madonna,. and even that does not seem to be enough...
There is still plenty of emotion left in these Crimson skaters. And they are mature enough not to let one devastating loss snuff out that life. Surprisingly, after the Monday dust is polished away, Harvard finds itself poised perfectly for a stretch run for glory and--dare one even say it--a possible national championship...
Oddly enough, some of the most sensitive work dealing with homosexuality can be found on TV. Murphy Brown and Roseanne have featured amiable gay characters; how far behind TV dare the movies be? As film critic David Ehrenstein says, "The entire history of the cinema is about the mass audience forging an emotional identification with people whose experiences are not like theirs. You don't have to be a dockworker to identify with Brando in On the Waterfront or a Southern belle to identify with Scarlett O'Hara. If you create a persuasive character, the audience will come...
When instant gratification becomes a supreme virtue, pop culture follows. Siegfried and Roy, the ur-Vegas magicians (imagine, if you dare, a hybrid of Liberace, Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Copperfield and Marlin Perkins) who perform 480 shows a year in their own theater at the Mirage, don't seem satisfied unless every trick is a show-stopper and every moment has the feel of a finale. In front of the new Treasure Island is a Caribbean-cum- Mediterranean faux village fronting a 65-ft.-deep "lagoon" in which a full-scale British man-of-war and pirate vessel every 90 minutes...
...where Pathfinder is being developed: "You're getting back to a scale of spacecraft that we really haven't seen since the early days of the space program." And the rover technology has already been copied by industry for use in places -- like hazardous-waste spill sites -- where people dare...