Word: half
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extremely well-acted, a film worth seeing by anyone who enjoys a well-written, heart-wrenchingly beautiful story of lost innocence and passionate love destroyed by ignorance and fear. The recent confrontation between India and Pakistan involving nuclear weapons shows the continuing relevance of an event that happened over half a century ago. Furthermore, Earth offers frightening insight into the tragedy and violence that can be associated with partitioning, an issue applicable to many part of the modern world. With the phenomenal Fire and Earth under her belt, Mehta will doubtlessly meet the high expectations the film community...
...cast and crew in saying: "I don't hope to influence how people think about Jesus; I'm just trying to entertain. The idea of this show is that we want people to feel that theater can be fun, that they're holding on to a ticket that's half rock opera and half rock concert, something that'll really get them excited about theater, a real adrenaline rush...
...screen. Casper and Kimsey are flat and undeveloped. In fact, the sole target audience that will not be disappointed by Bats would appear to be the masochists. Although quite honestly, the same affect could be achieved by banging one's head against the wall for an hour and a half, and it would be far less expensive. For after viewing the movie whose posters claimed it would "suck you dry," this reviewer merely found herself drained...
...pushing wages down as the endowment goes up. For example, Harvard forced its security guards to work for nearly five years without a contract, by refusing to negotiate in good faith. Harvard's disrespectful treatment degraded the jobs of its unionized security guards so thoroughly that, this fall, roughly half of them decided that they would rather accept a buy-out than remain at Harvard...
...body, resulting in a haltingly jumpy and downright silly performance. And what of Albert Finney, the well-respected actor who appeared in films like Annie and Washington Square, who arguably plays the most sane (relatively speaking) character in the film? His decision to play the part like a half-crazed babbling beggar adds to the cumulative mediocrity established by his fellow actors...