Word: lurch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grosbard, is a two-hander about the edgy relationship of show-biz sibs. Georgia (Mare Winningham) sings pop; she's famous and sensible, a caring mom and sister. Sadie (Leigh) sings barroom rock and thinks the way to be Janis Joplin is to do drugs, embarrass herself onstage and lurch toward an early, ugly death. At the mike, in the van, at the airport, she goes self-destructively, picturesquely nuts...
First there is Stauffer, who is the Wayne Gretzky of this squad. Perhaps the top player in the league and one who competed in this past summer's U.S. Olympic Festival, Stauffer's deft footwork leaves most opponents in the lurch...
...script had made the plot fly with dialogue that is the stuff of fantasies, this film might have ceased to lurch and started to dance. However, "she is the air to me," is not memorable, or even faintly original, material...
...recognize, among other things, "that Bosnia-Herzegovina should be a union of the Bosnian Croat federation and the Republika Srpska," both equal and both with the right to confederate with Croatia and Serbia, respectively. The Bosnian Muslims, without an adjacent motherland to support them, would be left in the lurch...
...orgy -- among themselves. With a frenzy usually reserved for chasing females, the males link up end-to-end in big circles or in long, winding rows that look like winged conga lines. As the buzz of the characteristic fruit fly "love song" fills the air, the males repeatedly lurch forward and rub genitals with the next ones in line...