Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reflexive knock against The Player is that its satire is too inside. In the opening scene, for instance, the studio executive played by Tim Robbins sits listening to a series of real-life screenwriters pitching plausibly dopey movie ideas -- among them Buck Henry, who co-wrote The Graduate, proposing a ridiculous Graduate sequel. Michael Tolkin, who wrote the screenplay and the 1988 novel on which The Player is based, also appears in the film as a screenwriter. But all the in-jokes are a secondary pleasure, not the essence. Even if you don't know what turnaround means, The Player...
...third floor apartment was one of the few with an actual door. If swung open in response to Russell's knock...
Only a major scandal could knock the Arkansasgovernor off track...
...Crimson had headed South hoping to give TCU a fight, and then perhaps knock off a couple of top teams at the Blue-Gray Classic...
...ceremonial stroll. Plenty of Democrats fear his campaign may be doomed when he squares off against Bush, and the fat lady is no fool. Even as he pummeled his opponents at the polls, Clinton has been dogged by questions of electability. In the fall, as Republicans go knock, knock, knocking on Clinton's closet door in search of another lady in red, those questions will return with a vengeance...