Word: decentering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trail, Liotta as a good-bad cop--while he watches, listens, recedes into the wallpaper. Mining his own insecurity to mirror Freddy's, Stallone dominates these scenes with his poignant passivity. The sweet sadness in his eyes reveals something rare in modern films: how much pain and insult a decent man with zero self-esteem can endure. Of course, he and we know he's the hero who, at the end, will bust out of his emotional lethargy; the soft Rocky will become the battering Rambo. But for a star of Stallone's gaudy wattage, the attitude is bold, subtle...
...fact that there was some confusion as to who deserved the credit for the crackdown was the sort of thing that eventually led the mayor to get rid of the chief of police as well.) Following the crackdown, it was widely assumed that the squeegee guys, after a decent interval, would reappear. That hasn't happened. New Yorkers, grateful but intractably suspicious, wonder where the squeegee guys...
...medical marijuana and affirmative action initiatives became known. In March, I rooted like hell (and with Ivy League pride) as Princeton got edged out by Cal in the first round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. And in April, I paced and cursed as Fargo, the only decent film in a long time to have a shot at dominating Oscar night, was snubbed in nearly every category...
...would be of some comfort to learn that Wolf, 35, grew up far away from any decent record stores, but alas, that is not the case. The author of The Beauty Myth and Fire with Fire came of age in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, smack in the middle of the feminist and sexual revolutions. She draws on her experiences there, as well as those of her childhood friends, to make the drawn-out point that female longing is dangerously suppressed in our allegedly liberated culture...
...first adventure, Vanishing Act (1995), Whitefield sleeps with the villain, supposing him to be the good guy. In the current novel, however, Whitefield does the unthinkable: she marries a nice, decent doctor she has known for years. He's real, not a villain, but suddenly he is the target of a female hit person who uses nakedness as deep disguise. Will...