Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mike Newell's film finds its premise in one of modern life's minor truths: if you are a sociable specimen of the yuppie breed, you spend many of your Saturdays and much of your spare income suiting yourself up for friends' % weddings. Charles (Hugh Grant), a 32-year-old Londoner, has made a second career out of being a supporting player in these archaic rituals. For him it's like attending a rugby match without having to get muddy. Until, that is, he meets Carrie (Andie MacDowell), a pretty American. The movie being a nostalgia piece -- remember...
Even for a career politician, Flynn's latest display of self-promotion has been sickening. Flynn worked tirelessly for the Clinton campaign and expected to enjoy the spoils of victory. When he was appointed to the minor post of ambassador, Flynn made a public display or wrangling with the administration over his duties. He argued that he should become an ambassador-at-large, able to visit hit spots and bring comfort...
...book becomes compelling because of the obviously personal identification of the critic with his material. The woks discussed are not schematized into a definition of marginally; rather, they represent a sample of the richness of various traditions: "We could conceive of (Anaïs Nin and Djuna Bares) as minor in the sense that they are experimental... but in the case of Ellison, The Invisible Man is standardly seen as a major work in the minor tradition, that it say that its minorities does drive from the social minority of Ellison himself." By tracing evidence of what he terms "psychic...
Following in the same lines of his other films, "Life is Sweet," "Nuts in May" and "Abigail's Party," Mike Leigh his created a minor masterpiece with his rich-black comedy of the working class in London, "Naked." The beauty of Leigh's newest film is lodged firmly in the brilliantly caustic characters he has created...
...volleyball program used to be kind of a minor program; it wasn't taken too seriously by the Athletic Department," Carpenter says. "until last year, when seven seniors just turned the team around...