Word: erraticism
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For the moment, which may extend to Academy Awards night, Matt Damon has cornered the always busy market in youthful, affronted innocence. And you have to admit he's pretty good at it. In The Rainmaker, playing Rudy Baylor, a young, undertrained lawyer trying his first case, he shows a...
Chief of detectives John Eller is "the seed" of the conflict between the police and Hunter's office, according to the police source. Eller once even voiced suspicion that the D.A.'s office had tampered with police computers; the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) looked into the matter and dismissed...
But the criticism was always that he was erratic at the plate and too small to put the ball over the fence. This year, Ralph proved his critics wrong in dramatic fashion.
The fact of immigration lies behind America's worship of origins, its intense if erratic piety about the past--which combines sometimes with a perplexing indifference to its lessons. In America the past becomes totemic, and is always in a difficult relationship to the great central myth of American culture...
Ryder was an erratic painter, and his reputation rests on perhaps a dozen works, most of which are his famous "marines"--dark, concentrated images of the fishing smacks of his New England coastal youth, pitted against wind and wave. They concentrate the Romantic terrors of seascape; in them Ryder showed...