Word: mortalism
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...when anyone wanders too close, the psycho (Tom Noonan) festers into action. A tabloid journalist (Stephen Lang) ends up flambeed in a runaway wheelchair. A photo-lab technician (Joan Allen), whose blindness has not inhibited her taste for sexual adventure, invites the psycho home and is soon in mortal peril. His only nemesis is Will Graham (William L. Petersen), an ex-FBI agent who uses a kind of Method forensics to identify with a killer's motives and thus predict his next move. But Will has much to lose as well: a wife, a son, a family life just like...
...sufficient unto the length of an eight-minute animated short subject that Wile E. Coyote have an inexplicable obsession with capturing a pestiferous bird. If, on the other hand, we were asked to spend an hour and a half in the company of this immortal pair of mortal enemies, we would require some word beyond the occasional "beep- beep...
...packed with grisly details (the severed head of an outlaw, the emergency treatment of gunshot wounds and syphilis), although not all agree with history. McCall was hanged for the killing, but in the Dexter version, the jury takes one hour to acquit the assassin, "on account of his mortal grudge against Wild Bill, and self-defense...
...pregnant, he recalls, and "from that day on, she never cried in my arms after making love." No. 3: Jane Fonda. Progress. She was of legal age (24), he was 34, and "at that time she still knew how to relax. A few hours of idleness was not a mortal sin." But today, well, "being a political figure, an exceptional businesswoman, an active supporter of her husband's career, a conscientious mother, a producer, a writer and an international star is a bit much for one person." Alas, the women all had the audacity to change. Only Vadim, 58, author...
With such novels as Wise Virgin (1983) and Scandal, or Priscilla's Kindness (1984), English Author A.N. Wilson has won increasing renown as a satirist in the classic mode, a chronicler of lofty ideals and comic, mortal diminutions. His name has been mentioned in the same breath with that of Evelyn Waugh; comparisons to Barbara Pym have not been lacking. Readers aware of Wilson's reputation will naturally turn to Gentlemen in England expecting some laughs and intelligent fun. They will not be disappointed, but they may be surprised by the range of humors that arise in the course...