Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Four guys hang out, kid one another, get into scuffles and flash their gonadal searchlight for available women. Yikes, haven't there been enough variations on the multiple-buddy movie? Actually, no. The funniest thing about the comedy Swingers, written by its lead actor, Jon Favreau, and directed by Doug Liman, is how smartly it spiffs up a tired formula. Just add wit, craft and--it's a dirty word, but we've got to say it--heart...
...traditionally second-tier sport," says TIME's Sally B. Donnelly. "The ABL is betting that if 35,000 people will come to see a game, many more will watch it on television." For fans who don't believe a game without the men's flash and speed is worth watching, the league is offering its player's skill, teamwork, and finesse. "People are skeptical because the male players have set a certain standard," says Donnelly. "And some people don't believe the women can match up. But the women are playing the same game, just at a different level." Mark...
...possible, of course, that John Kennedy Jr. suffers a little from Woody Allen disease (a coquettish tendency to place oneself in optimum paparazzi zones and then act surprised when the flash goes off). Kennedy also has something of his mother's gift for the sly Cheshire's disappearance before your eyes. Some primitives have believed that every photograph taken of a man peels off a layer of his soul. If that were so, nothing would be left of John Kennedy Jr. without his mother's trick of metaphysically absenting herself from the frame--a way of ghost dancing with both...
This forbidden tinge is played up through scenes in the dark, such as the opening, which uses the instantly recognizable, timeless set-up of two kids (Ruth and Anna) with a flash-light trading words in bed. Arruda's Peter, so very often positioned near the door and the outside world beyond it, provides a contrasting authority figure...
...mild surprise in an otherwise predictable day, but it passed quickly--the First Daughter had gone in a flash, and the normal pace of lunch resumed. I doubted that he had really seen her; there didn't seem to be a security entourage any-where. But it started me thinking--the last I had heard of Chelsea Clinton, she was just a little child about to embark on her adolescent adventures in the public eye. I remembered the ugly things that had been written and said about her in the press, all those phrases with the words 'pubescent...