Word: gazed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pulse and the gaze...
...Galapagos archipelago. Even today, the cluster of islands, a province of Ecuador that lies some 600 miles off the South American coast, seems idyllic: the giant tortoises known as galapagos, which gave the islands their name, still amble across the scrubby landscape, sea-lion pups and Galapagos penguins gaze unafraid at scuba divers, marine iguanas crawl over volcanic rocks along the shore, and strolling tourists have to detour around blue-footed boobies (a type of seabird) busily performing courtship rituals. Puerto Ayora, the islands' largest town (pop. 8,000), comprises a tranquil collection of quaint hotels, craft shops and seafood...
...stars are actually pretty good--Moore holds the camera's gaze as securely as any actress--but they can't save this revisionist slog. The film blames the 17th century for not being the 20th and Hawthorne for not being Danielle Steel. If this Scarlet got a letter, it would...
...bodice. What is especially striking about it is the way it preserves Quaker ideas of matrimonial equality. Conventional 18th century portraits have the wife looking adoringly at the husband, who looks at you. Not here: it is Sarah who occupies the foreground and fixes you with a composed, level gaze, while Thomas looks at her with a pride that seems very far from proprietorial complacency. It is a beautiful reflection of the equality of man and wife in a voluntary contract...
...this cautionary tale of blond ambition, Kidman concocts a savory cocktail of strychnine and syrup. Imagine a bourgeois sex kitten mistaken for a prom queen. Her eyes are fixed in a cutesy-predatory gaze that evokes and parodies the early Ann-Margret and her cinema avatars Melanie Griffith and Drew Barrymore. Her voice has the blithe assurance of someone who has never been told no. On her teeth is a little lipstick residue, like unlicked blood. She's got It, and she knows how to peddle it. In this small-town, pastel-pretty version of Network, Suzanne strides toward...