Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Altman may be a genius, but linear analytical rigor is not his thing. He lives and works amid a genial hurly-burly, with room for all kinds of stray inspirations and serendipitous touches to worm their way into his movies. What Altman pursues is not looseness for its own sake, but surprise -- both for himself and for moviegoers: he didn't know beforehand the tics and shadings performers like Lyle Lovett and Whoopi Goldberg (who play police officers) would bring to their characters, for instance, and the movie-within-a-movie surprise he gives the audience near...
Eventually, after about six people had settled down in our meeting room, the Boston Meditation Society began their "Meditation Intensive". Larry, a genial-looking, balding guy, did the first part of the talk. He explained that he and Steve--a younger, tanner, track-star type--are computer analysts in New York who lead perfectly average lives expect for the fact that they are serious students of meditation. These sessions, they said, were the result of their desire to share their experiences and discoveries with a larger group...
...political thriller cum debate by Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman about the difficulties of shifting from dictatorship to democracy, it stars five-time Oscar nominee Glenn Close as a woman raped and tortured by the old regime who wants to hunt down her abusers. Oscar winner Gene Hackman plays the genial doctor who may or may not have been the blindfolded woman's chief tormenter 15 years ago. Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss portrays her husband, a liberal politician who seeks to preserve the uneasy peace of the present even if it means suppressing the truth of the past. Although the setting...
MISSISSIPPI MASALA. Ethnic rancor in the deep South -- this time between a genial black businessman (Denzel Washington) and an Indian family emigrated from Africa. Director Mira Nair, who artfully depicted a boy's slum life in Salaam Bombay!, cannot make the human ambiguities compelling here. Characters - strike attitudes, not heartstrings, and seem stranded in a Mississippi mishmash...
...bouncers at the Spaghetti Club, which draws a more ruthless crowd than the genial Bow, describe a Harvard football player who tried to fight his way into...