Word: glares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well have been Carver's point, in fact, but the film fails where the stories succeed because the latter are tinged with a feeling of bittersweet nostalgia that the former totally lacks. With unforgivable crassness, Altman hangs Carver's tender, private moments out to dry under the harsh, voyeuristic glare of the cinematographic lens...
With their helmets off, however, these three seniors play another kind of defense altogether. When the offense is in the game, these three veterans usually sit in a row on the bench. The glare off their shaved heads is so strong that it may keep spectators from getting a clean view of the action...
...committing or instigating violent acts; sometimes it is difficult to tell them apart. Indeed, the political opportunists are sometimes little better than the murderers. On one side, radicals scream "one settler, one bullet." On the other, reactionaries prepare themselves to overthrow any popularly elected government. As these two groups glare at each other from opposite sides of the shotgun and crossbow, the death toll climbs...
...extinguished. In any case, ever since the members of the post-punk rock band Nirvana became the surprise darlings of MTV and pop radio, they've gone through a media barrage that seemed the very opposite of nirvana. Now their powerful new album takes all the band's media-glare anguish and alchemizes it into noisy, brainy rock 'n' roll. "Teenage angst has paid off well/ Now I'm bored and old," Kurt Cobain sings on the opening song, Serve the Servants. "Self-appointed judges judge/ More than they have sold...
...fireworks display and causing many startled spectators instinctively to shield their face. Interspersed with occasional fireballs, the meteors reached an incredible peak rate of at least 40 per sec. before the bombardment began to wane. Some shooting stars continued to fall until their trails were obscured by the glare of the rising...