Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tempo of the movie: slow, almost turgid. Like Elmer Bernstein, who enlivened the ponderous exodus of the Israelites in Cecil B. DeMille's The 10 Commandments with quick, sprightly march music, Goldenthal sought to spice up Jordan's dour vision of vampirism with a sprinkle of harpsichord here, a dash of rock there. "The performances were very slow and metered," he says. "Brad Pitt's delivery was whispery. What the music needed was horseplay, fire; I took any chance I had to get quick music in there to get people's blood moving...
Welcome to the world of Cher and Dionne, "both named for great singers of the past who now do infomercials." It's the world of Clueless, the surprise comedy hit of the summer, in which Cher (Alicia Silverstone) and Dionne (Stacey Dash) have Beverly Hills High School wrapped around their perfectly manicured little fingers...
...Dash and Murphy turn in terrific performances as Cher's rich, beautiful and popular sidekicks, bringing this very funny story of high school hell to life. Dash was last seen in Penny Marshalls's Renaissance Man and also had a role in the movie Mo' Money, while Murphy can be seen in the TV series Sister, Sister...
Still the officials in Cap Haitien wouldn't budge, so international observers were forced to unload the ballots and wait until morning. At 5 a.m. a convoy of trucks careered through the streets in a last-minute distribution dash. The display was typical of the chaos that beset voting stations across the country. Ballot boxes turned up in the oddest places: stacked on street corners, stashed beneath poll workers' beds, tossed into ravines. But such irregularities are one thing; the gunshots, screams and sirens that have traditionally attended mass action in Haiti are another, and they were notably absent from...
...Movin', and secured nearly constant airplay on vh1, an American music-video channel intended for an older audience than mtv's. The band Portishead smoothly combines feathery, angelic vocals with mournful, cathartic lyrics. The genre-challenging Tricky draws freely and creatively from soul and hip-hop, with a dash of alternative-rock abrasiveness. And vocalist Terence Trent D'Arby, who burst onto the scene in 1987, is back with a new CD, Vibrator, that tempers his arty brashness with newfound maturity...