Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beside those neon signs and huge, crass, mock-Hellenistic sculptures. Nothing a mere environmental sculptor could make would have much luck in drawing the eye away from, say, the outside of the Mirage, with its foaming waterfalls and its artificial volcano that erupts on a regular schedule after dusk, except when (a sign informs you) the weather is "inclement," a condition that will be signaled by a red warning light in case you didn't feel the rain on your head...
...certainly must seem that way to the WB's rivals. For the 1997-98 season, the ratings for all of them fell, except for CBS, which was just even. In contrast, the WB's ratings rose 19%. So far this fall the trend has continued. For more than a decade the ratings of the networks have dropped relentlessly, so the performance of the WB is remarkable, even if its audience of 4.5 million viewers is still much smaller than those of the major networks. How has it achieved these results? By finding throbworthy stars, of course, but also by targeting...
...time: a bit of Back to the Future (teen time travel), a whit of The Wizard of Oz (the color of dreams), a plot from The Purple Rose of Cairo (with actor Jeff Daniels linking two stories of real and reel life), a lot from The Truman Show (except that here everyone in town believes in the grand fiction of a perfectly ordered society). But Ross, who helped create two other fantasies of displacement, Big and Dave, has more in mind: Follow your heart, not the rules. And '50s bad, '60s good...
Jack Aubrey is a fighting captain, brave and beefy, unsubtle except in naval matters and mathematics. Stephen Maturin, Irish and Catalan, sallow and scrawny, is a gifted surgeon who can whip off a shattered arm or leg and Bob's your uncle; he is also a naturalist, a rare linguist, and a shrewd intelligence agent for the British Admiralty...
...This will sink Titanic." He clearly has a vision. I have a vision of my own: a democracy of moving images. Not everyone can be Martin Scorsese--that hasn't changed--but anyone who wants to, it seems, can now be Ed Wood. The Internet has nothing on that, except eyeballs...