Word: facing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cover of this week's Time magazine is a wide-eyed boy with touseled hair, broken glasses, a sweet grin and a lighting-bolt-shaped mark on his forehead. While recent issues of the magazine have featured politicians like Bill Clinton and businessmen like Bill Gates, the cartoon face on this week's cover belongs to a fictional character. He is Harry Potter, the young wizard protagonist of J.K. Rowling's series of phenomenally popular children's books...
...After a successful opening to its Ivy League season against the Columbia Lions last weekend, the Harvard women's soccer team takes to the road to face Ancient eight foe Yale in New Haven...
...Harvard will now face a hot Yale team fresh off of a pair of 3-1 home victories. The most recent was a triumph over Ivy League foe Brown last Saturday...
...Burnham--father, neighbor, self-hater. Because Lester is played by Kevin Spacey, we can see embers glowing behind his eyes even in the darkly comic early stages of the film when he has hit rock bottom: disdained by his harpy wife (Annette Bening), despised by his daughter (lovely, sad-faced Thora Birch) and distant from his own passions. The highlight of his day, Spacey tells us, is a quiet masturbation session in the shower. "It's all downhill from there." Spacey lets his mouth go limp to show us a broken soul, but the mugging face we see is always...
...value, and especially its amoral complicity in Lester's lesser actions. The film's tone is strangely gleeful, for instance, when Lester viciously berates his chilly wife.Winning an argument easily with a self-satisfied put-down that sadistically needles her insecurities, Spacey lets a devilish grin sneak across his face as if to say: ooh! that was fun. Trouble is, Lester's target (adeptly played by Bening) is so easy and his blow so gratuitous that one can't help feeling that he isn't being defiant and rebellious, but merely willfully unkind. It would be a little less unsettling...