Word: eyewink
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prima donna of the Cosby kids -- but their exertions were no more extreme than the acrobatics in many an R- | rated teen farce, and the carnal violence was a lot less toxic than the damage Freddy or Jason or any other horror-show serial killer wreaks in an eyewink. Further, the intent of Director Alan Parker was serious and free of titillation. The board's game was a sick joke at the expense of ambitious filmmakers, and it was resolved last week with the snipping of ten seconds of feral footsie. In the movie business, almost everyone has to make...
...originally planned a three- or four- hour work with a Godfather sprawl, but settled for 93 minutes and (pounds) 600,000 from Britain's Channel 4. The pinch shows, and so does the pluck. Kureishi's story shifts moods, and Omar changes motivations (Candide to Sammy Glick), in an eyewink. Stephen Frears' direction can be lyrical and clumsy by turns; it can soar or trip over its headlong ambitiousness. The splendid cast is urged toward caricature, then plays through it, with Seth magnificent as a mandarin socialist in decay. He is the eloquent conscience of a people stranded...
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