Word: endless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wealth of fresh tropical materials, but the pride of the region is still its fish. Indian River soft-shell crabs and conch are year-round regulars on menus, as are pompano, dolphinfish, yellowfin tuna and lesser-known delicacies like wahoo and cobia, both meatier, more flavorful catches. There are endless variations on snapper -- yellowtail, mangrove, hog and mutton -- all of them sweeter, firmer and more tender than the red snapper shipped out of state...
Other scientists call Mullis a genius, but he offers a more modest explanation for his endless creativity: a fervent desire to avoid drudgery and have more time to play. As a boy in South Carolina, he transformed parts from the family washing machine into an automatic door opener so that he could let the dog out each morning without leaving his bed. As an adult, he invented a system to dim lights simply by thinking erotic thoughts. Even PCR was an attempt to devise a less laborious way of copying DNA than the method used by living cells. "When...
...Cinema is action, the theory goes, and action -- aggression, propulsion, flying higher, shooting quicker, thinking with your fists -- is a male franchise. Women are supposed to go off in a corner and . . . nurture something. This is the traditional take, anyway, and it signals the vacuity of modern commercial films: endless, aimless variations on the old western climax of the white hat fighting the black hat while the crinolined heroine twitters and screams...
This hands-on princess loves picking up babies, whether or not they have AIDS. In her endless hospital rounds, she ignores the doctors and holds hands with the patients. If she visits a center for the aged during ballroom-dancing class, she finds an elderly partner and does a turn on the floor. By way of contrast, Princess Anne's work with children has been unstinting and effective, but she will not cuddle on camera...
...bank gang, Bigelow often forsakes her wits. Naked babe nukes G-men. Hero weakly abets heist. Director defers climax for a little documentary on skydiving. So how do you rate a stunningly made film whose plot buys so blithely into macho mysticism that it threatens to turn into an endless bummer? Looks 10, Brains...