Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christ (Willem Dafoe) is shown as tormented and self-accusatory ("I lied, I am afraid. Lucifer is inside me") and in which he persuades Judas (Harvey Keitel) to betray him because it is God's plan. But what has them fuming is a portion of a final dream sequence -- meant to be Christ's hallucination while on the cross -- in which Jesus is shown briefly engaged in sexual relations with Mary Magdalene, played by Barbara Hershey...
...knowing that you are expected to compete against striplings half your age. That is the bravery of Ryan, John, Sutton and Nettles as each game they pray that the mind can still command the muscles, that cunning can compensate for crumbling coordination. Men in their 40s are not meant to be gladiators; they are designed to be potbellied third-base coaches spitting tobacco juice, and gray-haired managers storming out of the dugout...
...What is meant to be the true story of Picasso turns out to be nothing more than an expression of Huffington's personal agenda. In the preface, she compares Picasso to Don Juan and the god Krishna and says that writing his biography was like having an intimate relationship with the artist. Until she broke up with him, that...
...lingering question, however, is whether Dukakis can adapt his orderly and idealistic view to the grubby challenges that the U.S. often faces. Would he assert U.S. interests even in those cases where it meant overriding the % sensibilities of neighbors or allies? "Dukakis wouldn't sit twiddling his thumbs if he couldn't get a 14th vote in the Organization of American States for something that was necessary to do," insists Nye. "The guy is really a pragmatic politician...
...movie circuit in the '70s (Shaft, Superfly), and Hispanics got short shrift, even as Mexicans were streaming into California to tend moguls' gardens and kitchens. When Latin actors did seize center screen, it was in art-house fodder like Alambrista!, Zoot Suit, El Norte and Crossover Dreams. These films meant well, but they rarely did well. They staggered under the weight of their liberal messages like a postman with the A.C.L.U. on his route. So many good intentions were riding on these films that they became morality plays, long on the uplift, short on subtlety or underdog smarts. They sculpted...