Word: emotionalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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7. Ersatz Emotion Commotion. Neither Bush nor Dukakis is known for volcanic temperament, so it is safe to assume that all outbursts are concocted by a drama coach. The problem is that feigned passion plays well on television and is apt to be endlessly repeated on the post-debate newscasts...
OCCUPYING the screen for nearly every moment of Big Time is Tom Waits' face: contorted by emotion and music, smeared with a cheesy huckster grin or haggard with the effort of lonely dreaming.
Don't expect to find subtle performances in this surreal treat. Russell, the criminally beautiful slut-goddess of art-house movies, becomes shrill in the upper registers of emotion. And Oldman is so acutely the rotten kid that you may want to stand him in the corner. These are not...
As Daley Thompson has been the natural heir to Jim Thorpe, she would be the Seoul beneficiary of Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Joyner-Kersee and Thompson, the two-time Olympic decathlon champion, puffing for three, embody all the basic wonders of the Games and encompass almost every grade of emotion. One...
Walter has a tape he wants Doug to hear, so they head for the family room and pop a cassette into the machine. "Right here -- what's that? What's he saying?" asks the younger man as the tape begins. Doug angles his upper body toward the sound. A black...