Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course the flight to fantasy in the courtroom is not without its dangers. It is more than a little disturbing to hear someone from the left-wing suggesting that God needs to be put back in the courtroom...
...liberal Democratic lawyer from the Chicago suburb of Wilmette. "Long before Paul and I fell in love," she recalls, "we were working together as colleagues." Simon proposed on their second date. This being the 1950s, Hurley reconciled herself to giving up her legislative seat, though even today one can hear hints of regret over abandoning her dream of becoming a judge. Their respective religions were a more serious problem -- for the parents. Martin Simon was initially opposed to the match. At one point, his son asked, "Dad, if I married the worst drunk in the county...
...reels of Fatal Attraction, the audience revels in its hatred of Alex's villainy. "Alex is sick," says Ned Tanen, president of Paramount Pictures, "not some predatory creature feeding on men. No one ever doubts that she is pregnant with Dan's child. Yet at the end you hear the audience screaming 'Kill her! Kill the bitch...
...Fatal Abstraction." In Ridley Scott's Someone to Watch Over Me, a cop (Tom Berenger) is assigned to guard a rich woman (Mimi Rogers) who witnessed a murder. He loves his wife but is seduced by the lady's wealth and vulnerability. And then -- can you hear it coming? -- his child is kidnaped. The cop must wake up to his duties and rely on his wife's cunning to help outwit the killer. Ironically, this exercise in high style may have gone lame with audiences because of its accidental echoes of Fatal Attraction. It's too close, but without...
Hoping to hear from you soon, Jeffrey J. Wise...