Word: downers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were tentative, imperfect and free of rhetoric became the model for any photographer coming to grips with the ambiguities of the American civilization. After a while his difficult vision of things was so well loved and widely imitated that it verged on becoming a late 20th century salon style: downer picturesque...
When I came to the shower scene, I braced myself to be disappointed this brief passage has gotten so much attention that it will have to be a downer, I figured. Not so. In a series of astonishing cuts (of two different kinds), Hitchcock gets away with, well, murder. He shows us the approach of Mother through the shower curtain, which would theoretically dull the effect of the attack that follows, without lessening the primal terror we feel when she does attack one bit. The shower runs throughout the scene (and well into the following one), draining the blood...
...Hasty Pudding award has lost prestige with this inappropriate selection. Who can we expect next year? Markey Mark and Shannen Doherty? Two collossal performers perfectly suited for your silly event. Eugene Downer HGSE (M.Ed...
Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, which opened last week, has already provided the elevated downer of the decade. But wait, there's more. Trailing Schindler, and in the line of Doubtfire, is a trio of high-minded horror shows...
...acting--with a few negligible exceptions--is superb. The heart of this play--Prince Hal (Bill Camp) and Sir John Falstaff (Jeremy Geidt)--beats with perfect rhythm. Mistress Quickly (Remio Airaldi), Doll Tearsheet (Maggie Rush), the Archbishop of York (Herb Downer), and Justice Shallow (William Young) are particularly memorable. Under the direction of Ron Daniels, these characters are shaped pertinently from the text. Not simply characters from Shakespeare, they are characters we interact with daily They are our friends and families; they are ourselves...