Word: demure
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...walk into a scene and be talking about something else, and they say 'Action!' and she turns into the person she's playing," says Damon of his Ripley co-star. "My life would be a lot easier if I could do that." But those who have directed him demur. "He's way stronger than he thinks he is," says Billy Bob Thornton, who worked with him on All the Pretty Horses. Notes Minghella of Damon's work in Ripley: "It's not a display performance. But the journey that he makes in the film is extraordinary. It's so carefully...
...They demur. Carrie hands...
...turnaround), as each new generation reinvents the past according to its needs. That the governing board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, that most cautious of Hollywood institutions, would abandon the town's ruling narrative conventions and embrace historical indeterminacy by voting--without dissent or demur--to present this year's honorary Oscar to a proud, fragile, now almost silent old man named Elia Kazan is astonishing. And to some of its constituents, adherents of both the old and new left, shocking...
...foreword to the catalog claims that it is "possible to admire Edward Burne-Jones as the greatest British artist of the 19th century, after Turner and perhaps John Constable." One may demur at this, but the show is bound to be a smash hit with the American public, not just because it is full of the yearning sentimentality that has flooded into real life today--for there is a connection between Burne-Jones' semisacrificial English virgins, each one a Flower Beneath the Foot, and the emetically mawkish victim-cult of the late Princess Diana--but because its artfulness evokes intense...
...Israeli political parties express every shade of opinion from the far right to the far left, or that no political action in Israel goes uncriticized. Why then is the American press so quick to accept misstatements and unfounded claims put forth by the Arabs without so much as a demur? An honest review of all information emanating from the region is sorely needed. BERNICE TEPPER Hollywood, Florida Via E-mail...