Word: drowns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eager relatives. Evans, not atypically, swam her first competitive race at age 5. As a child, Janie Wagstaff had to be counseled not to reach into the next lane and grab an opponent's foot. Even now, she admits, "when I'm swimming against someone, I want her to drown...
...love lost and found. (Last week Robert Guillaume played a Broadway producer upset at a bad review written by a powerful theater critic: his ex-wife.) The show is mindless but inoffensive, and a good deal easier to take than Melrose Place. At least no one tries to drown his problems in the pool...
Meanwhile, former California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr.'s delegates continued to drown out speakers and wave signs, clamoring for a speech from their hero. Their wish was granted Wednesday, when Brown spoke on behalf of his own nomination...
...another barber chair, Antoine (Jean Rochefort) meets Mathilde (Anna Galiena), "the woman with whom I knew I'd spend my life." Mathilde knows it too; in his Basset eyes she sees erotic ingenuity and unconditional love. Both are avid for the moment the shop door closes "so we can drown in the ocean of peace we love so much." French director Patrice Leconte, whose fine Monsieur Hire also dealt with romantic obsession, has devised a chamber fable about a man's infantile charm and a woman's nurturing sexuality. The movie is like the couple's love: pure, brief, passionate...
...arts and the humanities, broadly reconceived, is the most important cultural project upon which we can embark." Gates simply wants equal access to the institutions which perpetuate human culture. there's no call for separatism in his writing. He doesn't give an inch to Jeffriesism, which can only "drown out critical inquiry...