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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terribly violent. They're always shoving each other's head against the wall, or ripping up a table full of crockery and throwing the girl down. I saw The Thomas Crowne Affair, and they were literally making love while climbing the stairs! I don't know anybody who behaves like that. The way that they make love in this picture is, I think, closer to what people actually do. I think they do that, in Hollywood movies, because they're afraid of intimacy. They're afraid of showing it. And they're worried about what the rating will be [Jordan...
...awful lot of money from a bet years ago." When pressed on why Rea was right for the part of Henry, the film's jilted husband, Jordan replies, "I needed a strong and incredibly subtle actor for that. It's not an attractive part--men don't like to play a man who can't give his wife an orgasm. I wanted him to emerge with a dignity that is surprising." His instincts were right: the quiet pain and pride of Rea's performance is one of the high points of the film...
...would like to thank J. Mitchell Little for his article (Sports, Nov. 30) concerning Bonfire and Texas A&M University. It is very easy to sit back and criticize another university for traditions, events and behaviors without experiencing or understanding something one feels to be so different from one's own little world...
...reciprocated. Notoriously irritated by continuously being pigeonholed as "electronica," Death in Vegas has largely given up reading any of its own press. This is probably just as well, since the band's scintillating performance at the Paradise proved the last thing it needs is being told what to sound like...
...easy to see the group's objection to its typecasting--despite band masterminds Richard Fearless and Tim Holmes touring with two guitar players, a bassist, a drummer, a keyboardist and a two-man horn section, the band is invariably compared to groups like Chemical Brothers and Massive Attack. Still, the easiest explanation for the persistence of the electronica label is the lack of a regular vocalist. After all, how many rock bands can you name that don't have a singer? In keeping with this idea of unconventionality, the band somehow managed to play a sterling, albeit too-short...