Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shining his flashlight around the dark corridors of a Chicago public-housing project, a police officer whose street name is Ghost (his real name is Enriquito Florez) illuminates some places where he has found hidden guns: behind broken exit signs, behind an electrical panel, atop a doorframe. On this night his light flashes on a hallway garbage drop that has been left open, with twine flapping loose; someone had apparently tied a gun inside but hastily wrenched it loose. Inside apartments, the officer relates, he has found cocaine in a container of Comet cleanser, guns hidden inside toilets and, once...
...conduct sweeps of public-housing projects during which they searched apartments without obtaining warrants. The judge in March modified the order to allow cops to ransack without warning a building's "common areas" (lobbies, hallways, stairwells), and it was such a "vertical patrol" of the Stateway Gardens complex that Ghost joined. But Judge Andersen agreed with an American Civil Liberties Union complaint that warrantless searches of individual apartments violated the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids "unreasonable searches and seizures...
...spirit is especially infectious to actors. Take Meryl Streep, for instance. In the early passages she's obliged to play a woman half her age, and one blessed with precognitive powers too. Later on, she turns up as a ghost. But she just sails gloriously through both incarnations, utterly untroubled by doubts in herself or August's enterprise. That's true of her co- stars too. When Irons ages, he adopts an oddly strangled tone that should make you want to laugh. But it doesn't -- at least while the movie's on. Glenn Close as his ferociously virginal sister...
...film begins with scenes of upper-class Latin American society in the 1920s. Rosa (Teri Polo), the ghost-like eldest daughter of the wealthy Del Valle family, is to marry Esteban Trueba (Jeremy Irons), a young entrepreneur determined t strike it rich in the gold mines...
...House of the spirits" leaves viewers unsatisfied. Although working with a treasure of Latin American literatures and an all-star cast, August somehow fails to produces a great work on film. Ultimately August's version of "The House of the Spirits" is only a ghost of Allende's full-bodied masterpieces...