Word: lone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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John Sayles rightfully received props for his flowing, inter-generational mural of time, Lone Star. With the awkwardly titled Men With Guns (it amazingly both sounds like, and is, a bad translation), however, Sayles has turned a fundamentally disturbing subject matter fit for a sober documentary into the slow-motion romp of a Mr. Magoo social historian. Main character Dr. Humberto Fuentes (Federico Luppi) undergoes an overblown process of discovery in which we are invited to partake: nasty secret things happening and happen after civil strife. Again, no one can fault Sayles for noble motives, and obviously the story itself...
...block it, moves left. The tank swerves left; he moves right. Then this anonymous bystander clambers up onto the vehicle of war and says something to its driver, which comes down to us as: "Why are you here? My city is in chaos because of you." One lone Everyman standing up to machinery, to force, to all the massed weight of the People's Republic--the largest nation in the world, comprising more than 1 billion people--while its all powerful leaders remain, as ever, in hiding somewhere within the bowels of the Great Hall of the People...
From then until a three-game pounding by Miami to close out the week, Harvard was golden. The Crimson emerged victorious in six of its next seven games, and suffered 7-5 decision at the hands of Vermont for the lone setback during the period...
...mound, freshman John Birtwell pitched 13.0 scoreless innings and won two games. In his lone start, against Kent State, Birtwell allowed six hits in seven innings and fanned...
...filming in Manila. Alas, the outlook isn't good for Alice: she meets the kind of enigmatic stranger best avoided and, by a not-so-mysterious set of circumstances, winds up in a seedy Thai jail charged with smuggling heroin. An expatriate American lawyer (Bill Pullman) is her lone advocate. "I get thrown into a soi, this cage in the ground for bad prisoners," says Danes. "And I'm beaten over the head with guard sticks and things." First death, now torture: What's next for the angst-loving Danes? Yale...