Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elements of the novel--the real elements, not the perceived ones--and presents them with faithful exactitude. In fact, so close is the adaptation that readers of the novel may find the film boring and tensionless. Even the fresh elements which Kaufmann brings to the film seem a coherent fit with Crichton's vision...
Belder and Prymaat are well on their way to a conquest of the bluntheads that inhabit Earth when they crash-land in New York harbor. The Conehead command back on Remulak is upset that they have damaged their space vehicle, so they are forced to fit in with Earthlings while they wait for relief. The wait could last many years. Beldar quickly realizes they are scrabnord (screwed...
...movie ends just as its one joke is petering out. The aliens fit in, and the world...er, universe is a better place. In short, "Coneheads" is a genuinely funny movie which would make a good activity after an evening at a local house of intake (restaurant...
...they decided to fight instead, and a legal stay permitted them to keep Jessica while the appeals proceeded. They argued that Dan was not a fit parent; why was he so intent on being a father to Jessica, they asked, when he had two other children by two other women whom he had made no effort to help raise? Robby wrote letter after letter to children's-rights advocates around the country. She talked to reporters. In January the Iowa Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, but the appeals process dragged on for months. Dan and Cara got married...
...reticent Yankee patrician, the Harvard-educated offspring of a family that once owned much of the farmland on which the Chicago Loop now stands, Fairfield Porter was always a bit of an anomaly in the New York art world. He doesn't fit the standard profile of postwar American painting. People thought -- and to a degree, some now think -- that his work was "soft": civil and private, figurative in a time of heroic abstraction, obsessed with the invocation of natural beauty. But scratch its agreeable surface, and there is flint below, and an unquenchable heat of pictorial intelligence...