Word: gents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...provides one more reason to view alternative medicine with fewer snickers and a couple more nods. And while we're nodding, better do something about that migraine. Cut out the coffee, take the herb feverfew twice a day. If that doesn't work, there's always the old Chinese gent uptown with the needles...
...wonders at the controversy. One might expect sexual fireworks aplenty in the literary love story of Henry Miller (Fred Ward) and Anais Nin (Maria de Medeiros), two residents of the sex-as-art pantheon, and their put-upon spouses (Uma Thurman and Richard E. Grant). But Kaufman is a gent who dreams, ever so fastidiously, about nymphs and satyrs. And here he cannot find the moviemaking skill to suit his fine passion. His actors look stranded; with the exception of the tremulous, bewitching De Medeiros, they indulge in huff and bluster. As for the sex that got Henry & June...
...flowers speak to God, who is either black or George Burns. When you arrive (by elevator or escalator), a choir as big as a Nuremberg rally greets you. But if you are the prematurely dispatched hero of a film fantasy, you won't stay long. Some dignified gent -- Claude Rains or James Mason -- will serve as celestial flight attendant for a poignant return trip to earth, where you will perform the one deed that makes your life fulfilled and your death noble. A dead man always gets his last request in Hollywood heaven...
...Hyde (1886) is cleverly done. But the best part of this engaging novel is the diarist herself. Spunky, passionate within the grinding limitations imposed by her station in life, Mary observes her employer's deterioration with a mixture of bafflement and good common sense. Why is this privileged gent making his life so miserable? If Dr. Jekyll had simply listened to Mary, unpleasant Mr. Hyde would have been cajoled right out of existence...
Then again, maybe John Madden, the rumpled gent who whoops the game for CBS, is right about mud. Why not haul a few dozen tons of good, dirty dirt into the Superdome, the way they do for those tractor pulls that ESPN broadcasts...