Word: knockout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...search of his knockout punches, Short plays a studied game tending toward geometric patterns that win by stealth and surprise rather than brute force. He has frequently snatched games and matches from defeat when others might have abandoned them. This is a skill that Short, down two games as of Saturday, will need if he is to emulate Bobby Fischer in one more way: by winning the world championship...
...never thought I could fill Tina Turner's shoes, not in a lifetime," says Angela Bassett of her knockout performance as the rock superstar. For Turner, however, it was just a matter of the right shoes. When she saw one of Bassett's outfits, Turner went shopping and bought her two pairs of zebra- striped high heels. For another scene, she literally gave Bassett the shirt off her . . . But let Bassett tell it: "When I did I Might Have Been Queen, I was wearing a little peach-colored T shirt. Tina said, 'Oh, that's so old- fashioned,' and took...
...generate such a style. In the first scene, where Tobias (Billy Hulkower) is haunted by the crabs, the actors swirl in an eerie and effective dance. The scene where Petra (Neela Pania), who interprets the smell of roses as a sign from God, dies and is buried, is a knockout, probably the most powerful moment in the production. Petra's death and interment take place against a back-ground of the villagers' overlapping voices, repeating phrases in an incantatory fashion. The effect recalls a scene in Juan Rulfo's classic novel Pedro Paramo, where the narrator is killed by voices...
This was a Mike Tyson type beating. It was over before the opening bell sounded. Knockout for the Johnnies...
...busy keeping naughty, is not widely noted for his skill with ballads, but he has packed in a few humdingers here, including songs of love in advancing age (Evening Gown) and against tall odds (Hang On to Me Tonight). Most surprising of all, Wandering Spirit closes with an unexpected knockout combination of two low-key tunes: Angel in My Heart, which has instrumental echoes of the Stones' classic Lady Jane, and Handsome Molly, a traditional folk song that gives the record a coda that lingers like the end of a ghostly love story...