Word: meres
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Drag is the hallmark of this unwieldy film, and we're not talking about Lady Chablis. Clint Eastwood's lumbering adaptation of John Berendt's bestseller falls short of expectations, rendering the unique pantheon of Savannah personalities as mere cartoons and focusing too much on a long, drawn-out murder trial. John Cusack fumbles through the role of the script's too-young, too-straight stand-in for Berendt's narrator. But despite these flaws, Kevin Spacey shines as Jim Williams, the enigmatic gay antiques dealer who kills his lover in what may or may not have been self-defense...
...same hands may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." Well, that is robust rhetoric, but it is not quite true. It so happens that every tyrant has possessed those three powers and that every person who has possessed them has ruled as a tyrant. That, however, is mere coincidence...
McLaughlin said Sharp's and Campion's resignations coming at nearly, the same time is mere happenstance...
...suited for that role. The story of a small group of heroic mutineers absolved by a legal technicality is ineffective as a vehicle to explore the terrible reality of slavery in the New World. Yet, most problematically, unlike Schindler's List, Amistad is not being treated as mere historical record...
...Getty Center Los Angeles may not be the Athens of America, but it now has its own Acropolis. With a mere $1 billion from the Getty Trust, architect Richard Meier has performed a feat of late-Modernist classicism, a complex of art research, museum and conservation facilities that sits on a hill along the San Diego Freeway, quietly emanating the notion that civilization is whatever it is that produces buildings like these...