Word: gems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Florence had been taking fertility pills. And she and Nathan had hit the jackpot. Change the names and up the ante, and the Bobbi McCaughey saga is fully scripted in the Coen Brothers' gem Raising Arizona...
...Crimson's early woes are what makes Harvard's 2-0 gem yesterday, its current seven game winning streak and its stubborn pursuit of the National title all the more glorious...
...gem of opening weekend, Russian Ragtime has perhaps the most tenuous link to Judaism of any film in the festival. It is suggested that the father of Misha, the protagonist, left Misha's mother because she was Jewish. That's it. Ragtime would fit more easily into a Communist or Russian Film Festival than a Jewish Film Festival, and any festival would be glad to have...
...game that saw eight fumbles, some decidedly un-special special teams play and a halftime score that looked like the final from the first Harvard-Princeton game 90 years ago, Giampaolo shook off mud and rain and drilled a gem through the uprights 43 yards away for the unlikeliest of 14-12 wins...
Jarmusch, for whom Young recorded the soundtrack of the underrated gem Dead Man, shows his deep-rooted love for the band through his engrossing, though repetitive, mix of interviews, concerts, and more interviews. He also uses old film footage to fine effect--for example, juxtaposing a scene of a very stoned Neil Young & Crazy Horse circa '76 (bearing an eerie resemblance to the guys from This is Spinal Tap) burning flowers in a Parisian hotel room with clips of the band today as elder statesmen of rock: men with a past that resonates in their music...