Word: doored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Luckily a situation availed itself early on. Struggling to haul a load of boxes upstairs, I was confronted with a door that wouldn't stay open long enough to pull my hand truck through, and, to my delight, a handsome young man willing to hold it open. I graciously thanked him and smiled coyly like I imagined a sorority girl would do. We rode the elevator upstairs together...
...into an underworld of sexual deviance that takes him far from the Upper West Side. In these strange scenes which valiantly try to capture the dream-like thread of Schnitzler's narrative, Kubrick effectively conveys the image of Manhattan as a series of portals to sex. Every street, every door is its own pathway to sexual fulfillment. But Cruise doesn't work within this symbolic environment. He's too one-dimensional--Cruise has never been capable of subtlety. The only realization he comes to is that sex isn't as vanilla as he once thought. And what of the much...
...worked and sweated as a forklift driver in Dearborn, Mich., for nearly 60 years, often clocking 84 hours a week. He has spent scarcely anything on himself, preferring to invest heavily in the stock of his employer, Ford Motor Co. He could have been one of those millionaires next door you read so much about, living frugally while piling up money for a lavish retirement...
...their checkbooks," says the aide. Demand for tickets to a $500-a-head fund-raising lunch scheduled for three days later in Boston started to surge, pushing the total take for the event to $850,000 before the Bush campaign had to start turning people away at the door. The same thing happened at fund raisers across the country, converting what had been a steady stream of donations into a raging river. When Bush announced last week that he had raked in $36.25 million, the news instantly transformed the 2000 campaign. He had not only outraised his nearest G.O.P. rival...
This prayer is now answered. Summer films are ready to creep over to the dark side, where anxiety about what's behind the door or outside the camp tent can drive people nuts. This isn't last summer's type of teen-scream movie. The new films, a dozen due for release this year, are essays in mature terror, for and about grownups, with big or serious stars and a few A-list directors. For the moment, slasher films are deader than a naked cheerleader. Horror is going both artsy, in the Method madness of The Blair Witch Project...