Word: drips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demand from them an accounting of their activities. But above all, do something. Don't just wait for inquisitive journalists, congressional investigators or, eventually, an independent counsel to force out all the facts about North's sticky web of arms and money dealings. That will only intensify the drip, drip, drip of daily revelations that is wearing away the White House's credibility at an alarming rate...
tuned to silence, widen to the drip...
...Emperor, is mainly remembered for a decade's worth of paintings: the stark abstractions, composed of thick bars, props and vectors of black on a white ground, that he made in New York after 1950. Their iconic monochrome stamped itself on American cultural memory as vividly as Pollock's drip, Newman's zip, Rothko's blur or the shark smile of De Kooning's women...
...this film lays the sauce on thick. Cheap melancholy violin strains, again a la Mama Leone's, drip over each scene, happy or sad. All things Italian are overdone like a microwaved lasagna. Wild emotional responses ooze over the stock stereotypical Italian characters we've come to be bored with over the years, such as the psychic grandmother and--could you have guessed--the mob. And the ending drags on like a meal of wet noodles. Beginning to feel indigestion...
...quite enjoy a writer's work, if you turn the page approvingly yet' don't mind being interrupted, then you tend to like the author unthinkingly. Good chap, you assume. Sound fellow....But if you love a writer, if you depend upon the drip-feed of his intelligence, if you want to pursue him and find him--despite edicts to the contrary--then it's impossible to know too much. You seek the vice as well...