Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, there are balancing sins. Some of the more conservative characters seem awfully stiff beyond their years, such as the former radical-gone-establishment lawyer McComas (Jamie Mclnnes) and, to a lesser extent, the authoress' husband Mr. Crampton (Richard Listerud). But theirs are mostly minor errors in otherwise fairly solid performances, allowing them to play the straight man to the ridiculousness around them...
...Katz's fans like to stress that his paintings are "deceptively simple," as though some mass of knotted thought lurked beneath their surfaces. But in fact, what you see is what you get, and his repertoire of compositional tricks, though effective, is not very wide. The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself, and Katz has a near Warholian indifference to meaning: "I'd like to have style take the place of content, or the style be the content . . . I prefer it to be emptied of meaning, emptied of content." This...
...four brothers and an associate were sentenced to varying prison terms and fines, with Gennaro Angiulo drawing 45 years and $120,000. Using the umbrella RICO statute rather than just a series of specific offenses, said Prosecutor Jeremiah O'Sullivan, meant the jury could "see that, all the more, minor crimes are part of an overall enterprise, the business of a larger crime...
...woman entered her dorm under her own power, and friends alerted people who were unsuccessful in tracking down the assailant. The victim was treated for minor injuries in the campus health center...
...their credit, the actors in some of the more minor roles are terrific. As Charlotte and Henry's rebellious daughter who is planning to run off with her hipster boyfriend, Kim Raver makes a brief, tattered-jean appearance and gives a terrific speech on What It's All About. As Billy, a young actor who seduces Annie as she spirals away from marital bliss, Allie Dreier is wholesomely lecherous. And Ellen Harvey gives a truly nonchalant and terribly British performance as Charlotte, Henry's cuckolded ex-wife who refuses to act cuckolded. Of the more major players, Beth Colt lacks...