Word: max
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...broker, sued the Longmeadow Country Club in Massachusetts for gender discrimination. The club excluded women from voting, prime tee times and the men's grill. In the months that followed, Martin reportedly received threatening phone calls, her crab-apple trees were uprooted from her lawn, and her Himalayan cat, Max, was poisoned. She later reached a settlement with the club, which included $45,000 for her legal fees...
...fits, no fabulous darlings." To her credit, Fuller is known to be very loyal to favored staff members. Catherine Romano, who worked as an editor under Fuller at YM, MC and Cosmo, explains that while Fuller can be "tough and demanding," she finds talent in people "and lets them max out on their ability...
...Max's brain is a delicate instrument with too much complex wiring; all the data give him ferocious migraines. Yet it is the brain of this loopy mathematician (Sean Gullette) that makes him a captive of powerful groups with dark designs--some Wall Street sharpies and a coven of Hasidic Cabalists. This no-budget ($60,000) New York City thriller offers a warning applicable to humans as well as computers: knowledge is a virus. But the real triumph of [Pi] is its sensuous chiaroscuro imagery (cream swirling in coffee, blood dripping from a man's jacket, Max's raccoon eyes...
...devious Triad crime that challenges Murtaugh and Riggs so is, happily, exceptionally amenable to pyrotechnical screen displays. The film delivers all the broken glass and gas explosions your heart could desire. Action sequences max out on adrenaline, like one on the freeway where Riggs fights a thug in a moving prefab home, gets dragged behind an oblivious truck and then manages to jump back into the waiting car of Murtaugh, who promptly drives through a glass-walled building. Orange fireballs are more common than not on these streets of LA, and there is no fun in arresting someone...
...successful before this venture, it was Romero's rock star-level status as co-creator of the revolutionary games Doom and Quake that generated the buzz, marked Dallas as the blood-and-gore capital and drew talent from around the world. Talent that is now assembled in a Mad Max postindustrial setting where the refrigerators are packed with soft drinks, the food is free, and with several lounges and sack centers. Why go home...