Word: elmo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...multiply intensity of character by box-office impact. As the grieving widow in Ghost, Moore grounded the preposterous plot -- she gets a last chance to make love with her lost love -- and gave it resonance. She has shone in romantic comedy (about last night . . .) and Brat Pack frippery (St. Elmo's Fire). She always seems wired; nerves on edge, talent on display...
...real craftsmanship of Flatliners lies in its filming. Schumacher-whose past accomplishments include St. Elmo's Fire and The Lost Boys --has a wonderful eye for mixing film media, toned film with color film with grainy black and white. The cuts between short scenes are nothing short of brilliant, and the segues between fantastic and real scenes breathtaking. Schumacher chose an appropriately gorgeous and gothic campus (Loyola University in Chicago), as well as sparse city streets that are supremely atmospheric, and bathed them in haunting blue light, tatters and haze...
...most forceful complaints about the CDC have been leveled by former Chief of Naval Operations Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. As the Navy's top commander in Vietnam, he ordered that Agent Orange be sprayed in the Mekong Delta region to destroy vegetation from which the Vietcong regularly launched ambushes against U.S. patrol boats. In 1988 Zumwalt's son Elmo III, a former lieutenant who had served in the "brown-water Navy," died from a rare lymphoma. Zumwalt believes his son's exposure to Agent Orange was responsible...