Word: daring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...figure of power and poignance, horror and mystery. He dwells in the fetid cellar of the subconscious; from those depths rises the music of passions we hardly dare attend. He is the Id aching for the Ideal, loathsomeness wanting to be loved, unknown fear reaching up to touch or break our hearts. He is every teacher who fell in love with a beautiful student, every middle-aged man who has a star-struck boy's swoony soul. He is kin to Pygmalion, Cyrano, Quasimodo, Dracula, the Elephant Man and King Kong -- artists isolated in their genius, Beasts pining for Beauty...
...meant to enlist in his cause, like the environmentalists, the children's activists, the consumer groups. White House officials were proud of their willingness to flush the enemy out into the open. "We've already changed the debate from 'Can we take them on?' to 'How much do we dare to do?' " said an official. But it was Ross Perot, in giving his tentative blessing to Clinton's plan, who acknowledged, "More lobbyists will get rich in the next 90 days than in the history of man, trying to manipulate what starts out to be a great idea and turn...
...goofing off consists of various interviews and off-stage hijinks, all of which seem to involve Thurston Moore in some way. One notable exception is a short parody of Madonna's "Truth or Dare" in which Madonna, as played by Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, is made to pay for her castigation of the well-meaning dolt Kevin Costner, as played by Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. All the rest of the bits feature the wit and wisdom of Moore, who states at one point that "my mind is turning into a huge gelatinous ball of pepper...
...written, "enlarges in front of the camera." With her wide-eyed insouciance, she looks like the girl-(or former boy)-next-door, whether she's singing a hymn at the altar, snorting a line of coke or vaulting over a bar counter. Banderas (of "Mambo Kings" and "Truth or Dare") is hilarious as the appealingly deranged fan, and Poncelas convincingly portrays the oddly down-to-earth avant-garde director...
Referring again to her weekend, Waters spoke highly of a program sponsored by the Black Women's Forum in Los Angeles called "Men Who Dare...