Word: glitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie mixes grunge and glitter in the way of a Steven Bochco TV show, which is understandable, since director Gregory Hoblit has won a bunch of Emmys for his work on Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law. The script, by Steve Shagan and Ann Biderman, also partakes of Bochco's strengths and limitations--good dialogue, firmly etched secondary characters (nicely played by John Mahoney and Frances McDormand, among others) but not much suspense. The only potentially scary guy--Edward Norton's weirdo defendant--is safely behind bars most of the time. Diverting without being fully absorbing, this is a film...
...past seven years communities across the nation have embraced gambling as an economic savior. But for all its glitter, gambling's gold is, in many cases, more mirage than miracle, because in addition to the obvious fiscal benefits there are many less obvious economic and social costs. For one, notes Robert Goodman, author of The Luck Business, a critic of the industry, "casinos are an extremely regressive means of financing government" since many gamblers are low income-retirees on Social Security, blue-collar workers, even welfare recipients...
...glitter that surrounds his department, there are many doubts about the long-term significance of Gates' project. Some critics, like Temple's Asante, charge that under Gates and West, stardom has replaced substance. The two spend so much time speaking and writing for outside groups that their scholarly pursuits seem to take a backseat. Example: The Future of the Race, a forthcoming book in which Gates and West offer critiques of Du Bois's famous essay, "The Talented Tenth" (in which he argued that only by creating a small group of college-educated men could blacks achieve their racial destiny...
...like another annus horribilis for Queen Elizabeth. First there's what tabloids have dubbed the Seven Words War between PRINCESS DIANA and her sons' nanny, ALEXANDRA ("TIGGY") LEGGE-BOURKE. At an otherwise perfectly festive staff Christmas party--Prince Charles sprays Silly String on staff members, they dump glitter on him--Diana allegedly made so odious a remark to Tiggy that the nanny's lawyer sent warnings to the press not to repeat it, and the Queen had to be assured that the remark was untrue. Possibly as a result of her lip, Diana's long-term private secretary resigned, followed...
...only abstract on the large scale of composition, negative shape and depth. When you look at the details, you see a system of coherent microforms in every representation of small pattern and texture, whether he's doing the faux-marble finish of a virginal case or resolving the optical glitter of a gold frame into tiny lozenges of paint. You're meant to enjoy both the illusion and the means by which it's brought about. Supremely conscious of his language, he puts all the machinery in the open--like Velazquez, but on a tiny scale...