Word: leers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hamm's scenario, Batman interrupts a Napier heist and allows the crook to fall into a vat of toxic waste. Jack emerges as the Joker and leads a crime wave, concocting a formula to be injected into cosmetics that twists the victim's face into the Joker's awful leer. Soon Gotham is a city of the grinning dead, and only Batman can revive it, with the help of Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger), frontline photojournalist and all-time fabulous babe...
...cues from sources as disparate as The Wizard of Oz and Chantal Akerman's avant-garde French musical The '80s. But everything blends neatly in the witty, zippy script; everybody has a good time. Davis, a living windup doll, plays Everygal to Goldblum as he exercises his ingratiating leer. Carrey (a randy mime) and Wayans (with his turbo terpsichore) give unearthly pleasure. So does Earth Girls, the tastiest thing to come out of a space program since Tang...
...always tell a Harvard story when it appears in the media. They're the ones about the famed "Harvard mystique," the envied "Harvard old-boy network" and the "much-imitated Core Curriculum." But as the stories longingly leer at Harvard's financial prowess, or snidely sneer at its fall from the top of the academic mountain, you can't always tell much from them...
INSIGNIFICANCE starts off with, well, a bang. Roeg (The Man Who Fell to Earth, Performance) opens with a tantalizing series of shots: The Actress (names are no more specific--this is, after all, a fairytale) prepares to shoot the famous skirt-blowing scene from The Seven Year Itch. Bystanders leer and sigh, particularly a vaudvillian duo manning the wind machine beneath the grating...
...common in a new course in coexistence called "The Arab Citizens of Israel." The study program is designed to help defuse the hatred between the nation's 3.5 million Jews and 700,000 Arab citizens. When the course, built upon a text written by Alouph Hareven of the Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation, and two others, was initially tested on about 1,000 Jewish high schoolers in 1983-84, hostility could hardly have been more intense. Six wars in 37 years have generated over 37,000 Israeli casualties and many more among Arabs. No Arab citizen has ever been a member...