Word: emotionalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Light of Day, like many of Paul Schrader's scripts (Taxi Driver, Hardcore, Cat People), uses a strong, simple story to anchor a metaphor for social, familial or sexual relationships. But here he is so true to the characters' desperation that he deprives his film of the electric juice rock...
For all the horrors of his season in hell, Stone admits he got what he went for, as a budding artist ravenous for material in the raw: "I saw combat at the ground level. I saw people die. I killed. I almost was killed. Almost immediately I realized that combat...
Tim Barakett says the ECAC game he fears most is "Yale at Yale, because they'll play on emotion. I don't think they're as good a team as we are, but they're well coached."
The speeches were dramatically illustrated with slides and maps of Central America. The case for Nicaragua's contra rebels was presented starkly, with powerful emotion. "All we offer (them) is a chance to die for a cause they believe in," Lieut. Colonel Oliver North told a rapt audience in Nashville...
His appearance before the House Foreign Affairs Committee was a contest of sorts, but it ended without a score. North arrived in his formfitting Marine uniform, his chest bedecked with medals ("fruit salad," in military parlance). In a voice quavering with suppressed (or feigned) emotion, he took the Fifth Amendment...