Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truly loves Douglas. Finally, the film breaks faith with the most inviolable convention of the whodunit -- refusing to state firmly which of the two women dunit (notwithstanding gay activists' confident naming of one of them, in a publicity campaign aimed at undermining the movie). This reflects its fundamental flaw of arrogance, a smug faith in the ability of its own speed, smartness and luxe to wow the yokels. It is its attitude, not its morality, that ultimately undoes Basic Instinct...
...glaring flaw for the Harvard squad was its inability to maintain its intensity in the late stages of the game...
...Myerson, 52, the charges signal a precipitous fall from grace. And as in Greek tragedy, his fate seems the result of a fundamental character flaw. Despite a hefty draw of $1.4 million from his $400-an-hour rate at the prestigious New York law firm of Myerson & Kuhn, Myerson's profligate life- style -- featuring Ferraris and Rolls-Royces, five homes, 20th century art and foot-long Cuban cigars -- called for even more. In 1988, for example, Myerson took family members on a chartered-jet vacation to Maine -- and allegedly billed client Shearson Lehman (without the firm's knowledge...
Most of this breathtaking scenery is not gratuitous, for it adds to the image of the Grey Fox as a lone renegade who is at home amidst the elements. The film's flaw is its reliance on the scenery as a substitute for a full plot. At the end of the film, we are left, consequently, feeling unsatisfied, though somehow aesthetically and spiritually elevated...
According to Webster's Dictionary, "sound" means "free from flaw or defect...