Word: lone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entire term at LaFlamme, Ferrara worked at a lone chair in the far left corner of the store, the so-called "isolation ward...
...Kaplan's Mahler fixation extends to actually stepping up on a podium and conducting the Second Symphony. Since his debut at Manhattan's Lincoln Center 14 years ago with the American Symphony Orchestra, rented for the occasion, he has led the lone, magnificent work in his repertoire nearly 50 times, with 31 different orchestras...
...more likely suspect in this case, however, is some lone mad person, like the Unabomer or some renegade rebels from overseas. These people are beyond control. They may have some token demands, but above all, they are about irrational hate. We can incarcerate them, prosecute them, bomb their native country, and we accomplish nothing. We can attack the symptoms, perhaps, but we have no cure for the disease...
...boyish good looks and exquisite hair carry him through admirably. Yet it is often more compelling to watch Kiefer Sutherland, a brother of a slain redneck, encountering evil greater than himself during his Klan warm-up meeting, or Chris Cooper (again as a sheriff, markedly different from his "Lone Star" role) grimacing his way through shock and pain...
...John Sayles, that is. His Lone Star has become, in limited release, this summer's movie of choice for grownups who still regard intricate narrative and careful characterization as the most treasurable of special effects. There are no explosions here, just a skeleton unearthed from a shallow grave after a 30-year rest. Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), sheriff in Frontera, a Texas border town where even corruption proceeds at a somnolent pace, has reason to believe these to be the earthly remains of a sadistic and crooked predecessor, Charley Wade (Kris Kristofferson). He also guesses that his late father Buddy...