Word: decentering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...California last year when a 17-year-old with a lot of beer cans in his vehicle smashed into Kinison's car. Witnesses said the teen surveyed the carnage and woozily exclaimed, "God! Look at my truck!" As for Kinison, a former Pentecostal minister turned scourge of all things decent, he seemed to be in an urgent discussion with the Almighty. "But why?" he asked, and died...
...missed seeing mountains and, like all Seattlites, was suspicious of this sun thing. A city without mist seemed incredibly depressing. To make things worse, I couldn't even find a decent cup of coffee...
...became more and more obvious to me that Tim had been right, that for seventy five cents I had gotten not a Bering, but a falsely-labelled fifty cent cigar of Phillie Blunt quality or lower. But while I didn't come away from the smoke shop with a decent cigar, I did have my conversation piece...
Even with the best ingredients some recipes turn out inedible, but it's truly amazing that this one got spoiled. Whatever attracted a fine array of talented actors to this material remains a mystery. Either the shortage of decent scripts in Hollywood has become that desperate, or times have become that tough...
This terrible material wastes the talents of its principals. Irons makes the most of his two-dimensional character, and Lone ("The Last Emperor") manages to make clear Song's contempt for the fantasies he caters to. One of the film's few decent moments is Song's explication of the appeal of Puccini's Madama Butterfly: would the opera seem so romantic, she asks, if the races of the protagonists were reversed? Would Westerners swoon to see a blond cheerleader kill herself over a doomed love affair with a Japanese businessman...