Word: delirium
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Maybe a little careering delirium would have helped. It may seem perverse to demand that an outrageous film go still further, faster, wilder. But if it had, Crash wouldn't be the honorable chore it finally is--less a joyride than an endless traffic...
...Stalin, said the decision to sell could mean an end to what he called "40 years lost in the desert." Brooklyn borough president Howard Golden sent letters to Governor George Pataki and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani asking them to set up a commission to lure the team back. Despite the delirium, cold reality soon set in when city officials reminded everyone that the Mets have a right to block any team from moving into the city. And at a time when both the Mets and Yankees are making noises about moving to greener swampland facilities as New Jersey dangles a Meadowlands...
...whiz at making the poetry colloquial and intelligible; he spits out the 400-year-old verse like a rapmaster," says Corliss. "But he can't so easily make it poetic. What's lacking in this merchant of culture is Olivier's danger, the preening beauty and sweet delirium that makes an actor a star. Those are precisely the qualities that keep this admirable ?Hamlet? -- and ?Hamlet? -- from being a thrilling...
Then, in what started to become clear as being the only fitting end in the ultimate injustice against Harvard, UMass began to create chaos and chances in the Crimson end. In the delirium of the 132nd minute, an errant Minutewoman cross-shot towards the Crimson goal was inadvertently deflected by Larson's head into the net past a diving Burney, desperately trying to re-adjust...
...Witness parades the same ethnic rivalries and cinematic delirium. Spanning two generations, three hours of screen time and a dozen teeming plots and counterplots, the film is weird and enthralling enough to hook American cinephiles and leave them praying for more...