Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heard this one before: except for Momma, it's The Last Picture Show. This picture show doesn't match that one. The script, by Peter Hedges from his novel, spins out a few too many eccentricities, and the direction, by Lasse Hallstrom (My Life as a Dog), meanders. But DiCaprio and Cates bring loopy authenticity to their roles, and Depp is, as always, a most effacing star. Here, as in Edward Scissorhands and Benny & Joon, he behaves wonderfully on screen. He should be even better when he gets the chance to misbehave as a demented director in Tim Burton...
...still not accustomed to being recognized the way I am," he says. "It's nice, but I'm accustomed to not being noticed -- except by people who notice that I'm tall." Indeed, he has to duck to get under his own door. He is 6 ft. 9 in. You fear that if he fell down he would be out of town...
...coarsest intentions, languishes in late-modern American painting like a vestigial sign, atrophied. This is not because abstract art attained its Utopian ends of making representation obsolete -- we all know it didn't -- but because the culture forgot that there was anything to do with bodies and faces except photograph them. It's as though America, maddened and warped by its own erotomania, its obsession with and fear of the flesh, and further blocked by its newly acquired worries about sexual politics, can no longer imagine how to paint a naked human being. And even if it wanted...
...released no color photos of it -- the emerging image clearly shows that contrary to a previous assumption that Christ's expression is one of anger, it instead betrays impatience, as though He were saying, "Silence! Now I will pronounce judgment!" Even more significant, no one in the fresco except the Virgin Mary seems to know his own fate, and thus everyone looks fearful. Says Fabrizio Mancinelli, the Vatican's curator of Renaissance art: "Michelangelo's way of interpreting this theme -- the uncertainty -- was not in line with the church at the time. The church wanted to project itself...
...takes senior Adrian Ezra a few moments to remember the last time he lost a squash match. Except for one contest, the finals of the National Intercollegiate Championships his sophomore year, Ezra has never lost a match. Ever...