Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they not renewed his contract in order toscore a point or to hurt Peter, that would havebeen the wrong thing," Nesson continued. "They didthe right thing, and I give them credit...
Harvard (22-4, 12-2 Ivy) dropped its season finale to Dartmouth (15-11, 9-5) last night at Leede Arena, 78-67, in a loss that could hurt the Crimson's seeding for the NCAA Tournament...
...turned almost all their ire against the enemy outside. If Saddam doesn't give them food, at least he stands up for Iraq's national dignity, stoking their patriotism and resentment. "Why do Americans only want war?" asks one of the funeral mourners. "We have nothing left. We cannot hurt you. But you still want to kill us." She turns away, then adds defiantly, "We are not afraid of you anymore...
Giles De'Ath (John Hurt), a reclusive English novelist, has had so little contact with the late 20th century that he can't tell a microwave from a VCR. One day, by mistake, he watches a trashy teenpic called Hotpants College 2 and finds, he thinks, a reason for loving. In an actor named Ronnie Bostock (Jason Priestley), Giles sees all the beauty of the ages in one glorious package. The donnish writer buys fan mags, rents B-minus films, immerses himself in the detritus of Bostockiana. To your eyes Ronnie might seem a bland dreamboat, but that is part...
Director Richard Kwietniowski, adapting Gilbert Adair's novel, uses Priestley's fretful blankness to handsome comic effect. But Hurt is the big news here. Dignified and dithery, he makes Giles one of the most charming predators in ages. Like Von Aschenbach in Death in Venice, like Lolita's Humbert Humbert, he is a man of culture finding beauty in youth, in coarseness--in "all that I myself have never been." To Giles, ecstasy comes in small packages. For viewers, this film is one of them...