Word: flag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Award-winning Sabbath's Theater, Roth portrays the fat, megalo-maniacally horny Mickey Sabbath as a suicidal Statue of Liberty character. In what William Pritchard described as "one of the greatest sequences in American fiction," Sabbath goes down to the beach near his childhood home, wrapped in an American Flag, and with the accumulated force of 400 pages, soliloquies, "The Atlantic is a powerful ocean. Death is a terrible thing...It was all remarkable. Goodbye, remarkable. Egypt and Greece, goodbye, and goodbye, Rome...
...Crimson Tide, Washington plays the familiar uptight keeper of morals and courage that he always does brilliantly, and he singularly maintains the drive in the film. Bruce Willis is General Will Deveraux of the Army, the blindly obedient servant to his country who puts his allegiance to the flag above any personal morals. Unfortunately, he appears disappointingly infrequently in the film, and his part seems little more than an expanded cameo. Annette Bening is a covert CIA officer, Elise Kraft, whose motives remain multi-faceted and unclear, and while sexual tension surrounds her interaction with Hubbard, she has eyes only...
...perpetual look of a nice young man--from his gung-ho smile down to his University Shop loafers. But for some, even in his own party, Inglis is a little too much hall monitor and not enough of a pol. At home he chastised conservatives for flying the Confederate flag over the statehouse and for the G.O.P.'s tradition of racially divisive politics. In Washington, where he sleeps on an air mattress in his office, a sign scolds lobbyists who want to buy his vote. He blasted his party for this year's transportation bill. "Do I play...
...week to Casper, where he once played Little League and acted in local theater and was always the littlest kid. Annie Spitzer, a Shepard family friend known as Sister Annie at a Pentecostal ministry, remembers a trip downtown with Matt when he was in elementary school. "He saw a flag at half-staff, and he asked me, 'What's wrong with that flag? Why isn't it all the way up?'" And she told him, "Oh, that means that someone very important has died." As she explained mourning, Matt hugged her legs...
...fast-learning Wynn, and he started to buy more modern work--Picassos especially. He also began to cast a covetous eye on American art, scooping up (among other things) a great and gritty De Kooning, Police Gazette, 1955, along with several later De Koonings, a fine and rare early Flag painting by Jasper Johns, a Pollock and a beautiful Rauschenberg combine from 1954, Small Red Painting...