Word: franticness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CENTER OF LORENZO'S OIL LIES A desperately sick child. But in director George Miller's tedious film, he is also, during much of the time, lost. For this true story of Augusto and Michaela Odone (Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon) focuses on their frantic efforts to find a cure for their boy's rare disease (adrenoleukodystrophy). Their search leads them into shrill conflict with an overcautious medical establishment. It also draws them into that least cinematic of environments, the library. When they are not poring over volumes, they are earnestly discussing their various findings. Both modes distance the audience...
...shop owners mark down prices and increase marketing for their frantic holiday clientele, buyers are sticking to the traditional clothing and accessories for gifts...
According to Grace S. Bhudhikanok '92, a user assistant at the computer center, there were times when frantic students with papers due in a few hours had to wait while other students sat fixated to games of computer chess...
...about their strategy. They don't just leave little Kevin (bold, vulnerable Macaulay Culkin) at home this time. They contrive to get him on the wrong airplane and land him in a place we all know is a lot more daunting than the average suburb. Soon his parents are frantic in Florida while he settles himself in the Plaza Hotel and starts ordering room service. Soon too, Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), the goofily overconfident burglars of the earlier film, are maneuvered into place. And a couple of ambiguously creepy hotel employees (Tim Curry and Dana Ivey...
...proselytizing. This is no time for converting the heathen. Glazed eyes, a slack jaw and frantic waving to a long lost friend are tell-tale signs of terminal boredom...