Word: latters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...series of coincidences so contrived they are reminiscent of a Thomas Hardy novel, and accumulating moving experiences at a mind-numbing rate. They are united by common experience in the opening and closing sequences of the film: in the former case by the medfly scare, in the latter by an earthquake. (This portrayal of L.A. as a shimmering and perilous mirage is so hackneyed and off-base as to induce nausea...
...point as something along the lines of: people lead day-to-day lives and experience moments of joy and moments of misery and are sometimes happy and sometimes sad. This might well have been Carver's point, in fact, but the film fails where the stories succeed because the latter are tinged with a feeling of bittersweet nostalgia that the former totally lacks. With unforgivable crassness, Altman hangs Carver's tender, private moments out to dry under the harsh, voyeuristic glare of the cinematographic lens...
...impossible. They come fast and furious, and, like the highs and lows of a roller coaster, they are exhiliratingly enjoyable despite their random nature. The play's development is always one step ahead of the audience, and the race to keep up does get tiresome towards the latter half of the second act. Fortunately however, Levin, keen to an audience's limited capacity to watch and process a bullet-paced thriller, allows for extensive monologues in which characters, like members of a Greek chorus, meticulously recall events twist for twist...
Pressuring television executives worried about regulation to make a few cuts is far easier than getting guns off the street or instilling morality in the population; no one really knows how to accomplish the latter goals...
Yesterday's men's soccer game at Ohiri Field was one of the latter cases, as Harvard finally lived up to its potential, dominating the 17th-ranked Hartwick in its 4-1 victory...