Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fassbinder, and Lucy (Ally Sheedy), a photographer of stunning, decadent portraits who abandoned her promising career to accompany Greta further and further into their shared black forest of drugs and sex. The women are still attached to each other, lustful and desperate but still, it seems on some level, inspired by each other's sensitive nature and past artistic achievements. Unfortunately, both women invested so much of themselves in their craft, and both have flushed so much of their residual income on booze and narcotics, that the reserves of vitality and feeling left in either woman are too depleted...
Sheedy's performance maintains an incredible level of focus and emotion, a feat that High Art itself does not manage to copy. For one, the last chapter of the film involves a descent into sentiment that nothing in the rest of the picture prepares us for. Moreover, Cholodenko falls into her own writerly trap just as Neil LaBute did in last year's In the Company of Man: her escalating interest in her story's allegorical conflicts of Work, Love, and Ambition bleed all the initial power from an emotionally explosive scenario...
Nunn has done a masterly job of taming this unruly work. The audience sits, theater-in-the-round style, on opposing sides of a long stage. At one end is a two-level block of cells; at the other, the warden's office, where every prop--desk, telephone, picture frames, even the American flag--is a grim steel gray. He doesn't soften the melodramatic excesses, yet he emphasizes the metaphorical overtones. There are references to Mussolini and Hitler ("that monkey with the trick mustache"); a Jewish convict laments, "I come of a people that are used to suffer...
...going to an Aerosmith concert, oversees a combined $670 million in assets at the Janus Balanced Fund and Janus Equity Income Fund. "There's always some executive who views you as a snot-nosed kid," says Rollins. "But if you've done your homework, you can talk on his level." And make him money; in the past year, Rollins has garnered a strong 24% to 31% return for his funds...
...your blood pressure is only bordering on the high side, you should work to lower it. A study released last week suggests that the risk of heart attack and stroke is substantially reduced when you lower your diastolic pressure (the lower number) to 83, from the currently recommended level...