Word: mushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President also tackled tasteless television, getting the networks to agree to a ratings system, despite Ted Turner's protestation that all would soon be Brady Bunch mush. But better Marsha fretting over going steady than the glut of sex scenes now as common in sitcoms as car chases are in movies. One minute my daughter and I are loading the dishwasher watching Mad About You and then--bang!--on the screen two people are actively engaged in baby making. Even anything-goes libertines I've asked cringe at the idea of watching soft-core sex with their children...
...meant to be risen above. It was meant to be mundanely inhabited. Power was meant to be divided and dispersed. Our entire political engine was built precisely to produce conflict, tension, even gridlock. The way to rise above that is not with some man on a white horse mouthing mush. The way to elevate politics is to elect a man with a party and a program and give him a shot. The American way is Franklin Roosevelt, not Juan Peron...
...somehow Diane Keaton, directing her first fictional feature, gets us safely through a movie that could have turned to mush at any moment. She knows how to touch on an emotion without squeezing every last tear out of it. She knows how to get a laugh without bringing down the whole fragile edifice of her film. She is helped a lot by a terrific cast, which understands that playing madness is very serious business, and by Richard LaGravenese's wonderfully modulated script. From The Fisher King through A Little Princess and The Bridges of Madison County, he has demonstrated...
...kooky brothers Danny (Michael Richards of Seinfeld) and Arthur (Maury Chaykin) to get Steven safely through his first encounters with mortality and onrushing manhood. "Helped by terrific acting and Richard La Gravenese's wonderfully modulated script, Keaton gets us safely through a movie that could turn to mush at any moment," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "The hard-hearted excepted, most will be charmed by the minor-key of this very seductive movie...
...turn may come back to burn the region. Nearly two-thirds of the region lies atop permafrost. Climate models estimate that even a small temperature rise globally would be exaggerated in the north, and could melt the upper parts of the permafrost, turning huge areas of Siberia into mush and toppling the thousands of Soviet-era buildings erected on stilts sunk into the ice. The price for ridding Siberia of ugly Stalinist architecture, however, would be that the meltdown would release enormous amounts of methane, exacerbating climate change...