Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anything should have persuaded sports authorities to confront their unprecedented dilemma earlier, it is the effect on other competitors. Most are well known and would like a little press attention that the folks back home could share in. They are almost completely ignored. Kurt Browning, a Canadian contender for the men's title, would normally be surrounded by reporters, but he only gets asked about Harding/Kerrigan. Says he: "It's not about figure skating anymore...
...rest of Face the Music is bubble-gum sweet, alternating between mid- tempo make-out sound tracks and swooning ballads whose message is pretty much summed up by the dilemma expressed in Girls: "What would boys be without girls to love? . . . / Can't live with 'em, can't live without girls." That's the first thing boys learn when they grow...
...couch this dilemma wittily, as screenwriter Martin Sherman does, but you can't really evade its darker implications. Director Waris Hussein doesn't try. His style is objective without being cool or repressed in the all-too- common English manner. He avoids playing for big laughs the mostly awful social situations in which his characters find themselves. Even a drunk scene between Plowright and Moreau is low-keyed. It is very agreeable to discover a movie in which everything is not foreshadowed, underlined, commented upon. In other words, The Summer House is disciplined in the way that British theatrical productions...
Those who wondered not only whether but how Roth would resolve his dilemma now have at least an introductory answer. The first installment of Mercy of a Rude Stream displays documentary rather than novelistic ambitions. It takes its young hero, Ira Stigman, from his eighth year, in 1914, after he and his parents have moved from the Lower East Side to an apartment in Harlem, up to age 14. It also offers interpolated passages in which Ira as an aging man conducts imagined conversations with the computer on which he is writing his life story. Late in this novel...
...writing A Drinking Life, he faced a technical dilemma -- how to repudiate the booze that did so much damage in his life while reproducing what he still considers the happier side of the drinking, the exuberant good times. The solution might have lain in more detachment -- drunkenness recollected in tranquillity. It might have lain in a more censorious attitude toward booze and all its works. But that would have subverted the romance of drinking. Hamill still seems to believe in that, in some backhanded way, though he switched to club soda 20 years ago. He even gives boozing a momentary...