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...Elena Hood, Kline and Allen are especially adept at communicating their pain to the audience, even though they can't even communicate with each other. But Kline's character in particular comes across as clownish, because he's never given a chance to emerge from his foolish, self-indulgence. Ricci's stone-faced Wendy Hood is interesting to watch but difficult to penetrate. Sigourney Weaver's sultry next-door neighbor remains a mystery throughout the film. Lee suggests that every character is going through some sort of emotional turmoil, no matter how hard they may be trying...
...week. "These kids don't know what they're getting into," says Queen. "But I can tell you, this is another drug that's going to be abused and cause harm." What really steams officer Queen is that he can't do much about it. Snorting K may be foolish, but it's not a felony. If someone without a medical or veterinary license is caught with ketamine in Florida, the maximum sentence is 60 days in jail and a $500 fine. Only a handful of state's attorneys have taken the time to prosecute K cases when the stakes...
...show begins with a quick video highlighting the numerous books which have tried to explain or denounce the quirky habits of men--Why Men Aren't Intimate, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus and the curious Smart Women, Foolish Choices. From books, the video moves to those infamous talk show hosts, Sallie, Oprah and Geraldo who have profited from such titles as Men Who Won't Commit and the Women Who Love Them. Each clip shows a different anguished woman confronting the cowering man beside her as the audience yells with glee and Sallie/Oprah/Phil smiles knowingly...
Other epithets, many not so complimentary, play on proper names. To Hoover is to inhale or consume greedily; Ike is an uncouth fellow; LBJ, the military's Long Binh jail in Vietnam; Jerusalem Slim, the radical syndicalists' derisive name for Jesus; Oscar, an unpleasant or foolish man. Joe gets more than three pages of entries, among them Joe Lunchpail, an ordinary working man, and Joe Sad, black English for a friendless or unpopular man. John Wayne wins nine citations. To John-Wayne is to attack with great force; a John Wayne cookie is a military field-ration biscuit...
Linden finished with three touchdowns and two interceptions, but several times aimed unsuccessfully at receivers in traffic. "It took a while to get going. There were some good plays, but we also made some foolish plays," Linden said. "I forced the ball into coverage a couple of times...