Word: grand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paul Malinowski Grand Junction, Colo...
...swept up, wrung dry, and fucked over. One character explains, "We're all whores, so we might as well be the best," and that becomes the movie's warped Rockyism. These writers, producers and actors know something about being good whores, and North Dallas Forty is a grand trick; bitterly in tune with its audience, vulgar and sexy and funny enough to get up and get dressed with little loss of dignity...
...central role is that of Prospero, the play's Grand Puppeteer, which was highly suited to the talents of Richard Burbage, for whom Shakespeare fashioned his Richard III, Hamlet, Othello, Lear and other major parts. The role is more than three times as long as any other in the play, and the character has been thought to stand for God, Jesus, Fate, Justice, Art, Intellect, the Ideal Ruler, the Colonizer, the Grumpy Old Man, and a host of other things including Shakespeare himself...
Vacationing at an old hostelry, played superbly in the film by the Grand Hotel on Michigan's famed Mackinac Island, the playwright falls for a 1912 portrait. Before you can say Clark Kent-poof-he goes back 67 years in time to see if he has the chance of a ghost with the subject, played by Jane Seymour...
This month Yant's lonely crusade began to bring results. A second grand jury returned a new round of indictments against Weikel. A petition was filed, signed by 6,580 citizens, calling for Weikel's removal. Last week the sheriff pleaded no contest to various misdemeanor charges and resigned from office. The felony charges were dropped. Says...