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...riff on his 12-year relationship with Hurley, the often scantily clad Valkyrie to whom he seems content to play the hapless chorus boy. "Elizabeth made me buy a house," he confesses, "and we spent two years having idiot, pretentious, criminal bozos decorate it. It's now completely hideous, and I'm quarreling with her because I don't want to live there. The shower smells of dead people; I hate it." Instead, he hangs out in their old flat around the corner. "I go there and watch the football and drink beer. But I think that's healthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hugh Grant's Sorry Now | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...been unleashed; like Stravinsky, they aspire to create a magnum opus of the season's rituals. With ardor, with bags of dirt, they have already begun to transform the Yard from a relatively pleasant, serene meadow into a confusion of cordons, chemical grass simulacra and bare patches of earth hideous to behold. Harvard subsists on tradition: the Yard is made repellent each spring and this one is no different. Why bother, one is compelled to wonder. Why go to all the time and expense for a lawn destined for a life so nasty, brutish and short...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: As Follows | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...been unleashed; like Stravinsky, they aspire to create a magnum opus of the season's rituals. With ardor, with bags of dirt, they have already begun to transform the Yard from a relatively pleasant, serene meadow into a confusion of cordons, chemical grass simulacra and bare patches of earth hideous to behold. Harvard subsists on tradition: the Yard is made repellent each spring and this one is no different. Why bother, one is compelled to wonder. Why go to all the time and expense for a lawn destined for a life so nasty, brutish and short...

Author: By Elisheva A. Lambert, | Title: The Dirt Beneath the Grass: The Yard's Elite Roots Uncovered | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...this is not a Kate Winslet porn flick. The biggest mistake that the producers made in this film was choosing such a flashy title. I spent half of the movie waiting to find out what was so hideous and kinky about a hippy mother dragging her two kids around Morocco. Let me save you the trouble: "hideous kinky" is the "naughty" phrase that Winslet's two daughters invent and chant all over Morocco, enjoying the excitement of shouting out swear words while the natives remain unaware...

Author: By Kelly A. Turner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hideous Kinky | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

...lack of transitions keep you from renting Hideous Kinky when it comes out on video. The film is worth seeing simply because it's not the same old Hollywood formula movie where a meteor is about to collide with the earth. Different is good...

Author: By Kelly A. Turner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hideous Kinky | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

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