Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been donating that much to Democrats, pro-business or not. After all, every additional New Dog in Congress is a step toward corporate America's nightmare of nightmares: a Democratic House majority and Speaker Gephardt. The Democratic National Committee can't make up the shortfall because it's flat broke. That leaves the tender New Dog pups facing their first re-election next year dependent on labor. And that's why half the NDC opposed the President on fast-track trade authority last week, even though support for expanded free trade is supposed to be one of the group...
...reason to be immersed in a movie-theater environment. "The future of home theater is in digital TV," says Dataquest analyst Jonathan Cassell. At the same time, DVD, the next-generation successor to videotapes and CDs that is hitting the market, promises superior audiovisual quality. The final touch: futuristic flat-panel TVs that hang as elegantly on a wall as a Renoir...
...style was perfect for Strauss' moody Sonata in E-flat Major. This sonata is Romantic with a capital R and dramatic, alternating quickly between slow, cinematic melodies and passionate bombastic chords. Critics have often suggested that the eruptive Strauss sonata is more appropriate for a large-scale symphony orchestra than for violin and piano, yet the piece could not have been more perfect for Chang...
...translating Wendy Kesselman's play to the screen, I Love You, I Love You Not becomes limply flat. The filmmakers have apparently forgot the need for logical connections and transitions. As a result, the attempt to cross the themes of a modern story of teenage angst with historical drama is doomed from the start, despite valiant efforts by Claire Danes and Jeanne Moreau to elevate the film above the listless script. I Love You, I Love You Not fails as an injudicious, offensive appropriation of the Holocaust...
...this last element--the villain of the story's formula--that falls hopelessly flat. The most outstanding animated features are those with the strongest villains; think of Cruella de Vil, Ursula and Jafar in Disney's best. Rasputin, however, is a bumbling idiot. He shrieks and whines and has the further distasteful attribute of losing his bodily limbs every so often (apparently, the animators want to make it very clear that villains must be repulsively ugly). Moreover, he seems to have absolutely no motivation for his curses. He constantly howls "The Romanovs must be destroyed!" but there seems...