Word: meyers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Biographer Michael Meyer, accustomed to tamer Scandinavians (as in his 1971 Ibsen: A Biography), fails to address the fearful Strindberg paradox as forthrightly as he might. He is long on description, short and cautious on analysis. But in the process of collecting data from Strindberg's life and from some 75 volumes' worth of plays, novels, stories, poems, essays, diaries and letters, Meyer scatters all the fascinating and self-contradictory clues a reader could ask for. Strindberg emerges as the most deceptive of fanatics. He was "slim and elegant," fastidious in his dress and aristocratic in his bearing, with...
...leftover from another teen comedy, John Cusack, as Lane Meyer, seems uniquely inappropriate after his boisterous role in The Sure Thing to play someone on the down side of teen life. In another dimension, where teen comedies all have good script writers, the pairing of Cusack and Armstrong might have been relatively magical, something like proto-Belushi meets proto-Murray. Instead, they are confined to gags that only a teen messiah could save, and only a child could enjoy. Hopefully, Cusack's role in the Disney flick The Journey of Natty Gann turns out better...
...disturbingly funny, stupid gag that runs through the film is Mrs. Meyer's cooking. She is able to create life from the leftovers that she piles in the stewpot, lifeforms that are definitely not meant to be. Clearly, Mrs. Meyer's cuisine is a metaphor for Savage Steve Holland's leftover film, which is indeed (I gotta say it) better off dead...
...Charles Meyer's series of colorful pictures present Klansmen in Alabama, aressed in their traditional hooded uniforms, staring proudly into the camera. These journalistic photos hane opposite Bonnie Donohue's college of blurry video reproductions documenting the 1984 Olympic women's 3000-meter race...
...Bible abhors it. Dr. Johnson inveighs against it. French Philosopher Roland Barthes considers it "murder by language." Even Ann Landers speaks out in opposition. But Patricia Meyer Spacks disagrees. Gossip, she believes, is good for you: "It may manifest malice, it may promulgate fiction in the guise of fact, but its participants do not value it for such reasons; they cherish, rather, the opportunity it affords for 'emotional speculation...