Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...irony of the situation is devastatingly clear. Grisham is to the world of books what "big studio" pictures have generally come to be in the world of movies: a manipulative, diluted heap of cliches. The even greater tragedy is that the Grisham-studio team has swept up many a prominent director in its platitudes. Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa, The Firm), Alan Pakula (Sophie's Choice, The Pelican Brief), and Joel Schumacher (Falling Down, A Time to Kill) have fallen prey to the Grisham spell...
...nyah-nyah-nyah files: Remember the TIME O.J. cover? The magazine took a heap of flak three years ago for darkening The Juice's mug, making the accused look, um, more sinister. Well now rival Newsweek, which surely didn't spare the rod back then, has been caught whitening--and straightening!--the teeth of America's mother-of-the-moment Bobbi McCaughey for its Monday cover...
...then proceeded to heap blame on the British government for treating the Nationalists and Catholics in Northern Ireland as "second class citizens...
...didn't strain for these bold, indelible moments. They just came naturally to him. Haute Hollywood patronized him--low budgets, no Oscars--and the dominant middlebrow critics of his high time, the 1950s and early '60s, dismissed him. It was O.K. to see the world as a dung heap if you eventually deplored it, but you weren't supposed to be as exuberantly unjudgmental about the vulgarly obsessed creatures scuttling across it as Sam was. --By Richard Schickel
...particular scene, the nude bodies of Biberkopf and his lover Mieze are tied to an assembly line, and sliced open as though they are cattle. In a similar part of the dream sequence, the still-living bodies of all of Biberkopf's acquaintances are piled in a bloody heap in a white-lit chamber. Biberkopf is led to join the orgy, reflecting the way in which he eventually broke his oath of decency and degenerated into a life of criminality...