Word: doom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would-be writer, hysterically entertaining in her weakness. As Hank Knox, Henry delivers perhaps the most consistent performance. The role calls primarily for a straight face; Hank's most salient feature is his inability to relate to the other characters. His arrogance is tainted with just enough impending doom to make his character likable...
...moves. The easiest, this week's convention, will be over in a flash. In days that some can still recall, national-party conventions witnessed the heaviest lifting; party bosses actually selected the candidates. Today conventions are little more than nationally televised pep rallies, quickly forgotten junkets that can nevertheless doom a candidate's chances if they deteriorate into party-wrecking brawls. The TV exposure routinely provides the ticket a temporary bounce (4 points in the polls, on average), but the lingering memory of an unseemly tussle can cause voters to conclude that a candidate who can't control even...
...limit serious drugs to weekends and saint's days. But when Jeff, Russell's star first novelist, arrives at a bash with a 19-year-old model and a heroin habit, eyebrows are raised. Middle age is still a laughable rumor, but in a distant and abstract way, doom is understood to exist...
...Precious). If Emily Dickinson were to show up at the Betty Ford Center, she might testify, as Lennox does in Legend in My Living Room, "I've shed my tears in bitter drops/ Until the thorn trees bloomed/ To take the spiky fruit to crown/ Myself the Queen of Doom." The whole glorious album plays like an atonement for the excesses of the '80s. The punishment is remembrance...
Qualms about his character could doom him in November...