Word: noir
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worldwide because it blew wide open the envelope of cinematic possiblity. Mean Streets (1973). The gritty realism of Scorsese's breakthrough movie began the stylish exploration of the low-rent wiseguy that he completed in "Goodfellas." The Manchurian Candidate (1962). The finest American political film ever goes deep and noir into the fear and loathing at the heart of Washington, D.C. The Getaway (1972). Noir cinema reaches its apotheosis with Peckinpah's rendering of Jim Thompson. Throw in the coolest white man ever (Steve McQueen) and you've got a scorcher. Rear Window (1954). Well, actually, the whole Hitchcock canon...
...film offers seven characters in search of a spanking. The main miscreant is Dedee (Christina Ricci), 16-year-old tornado-park trash from Louisiana. Think of all the black widows and blond minxes from old film noir, give them the mouth of a Quentin Tarantino tough, and you have Dedee--not only in your face but down your throat. In the film's first 15 minutes, she desecrates her stepfather's grave, runs away from home with her one-testicled boyfriend, dumps him to visit her gay half brother, seduces his boyfriend and declares she's pregnant...
...will go to a worthy cause. That cause is not homelessness or AIDS babies, but the Olfactory Research Fund, which Green also heads. The fund counts among its latest projects a joint study with the Kinsey Institute to determine the effect of fragrance on women's sexual fantasies. (Drakkar Noir, it seems, does wonders...
...there are the wines. The Cape's staple white is Chenin Blanc, but the Sauvignon Blancs--sometimes oak matured--are achieving high points in world ratings. Locals will say that if you haven't tasted South Africa's distinctive national red, known as Pinotage, a grape cross of Pinot Noir and Cinsaut, then you haven't yet lived...
...Bohn's Hand-bk. Games 343 The first parcel of cards played, is usually for noir, the second for rouge. 1850 [see INVERSE sb. 3]. 1928 M. CAROL How to play Roulette iv. 56 The even money chances are Rouge or Red, Noir or Black, Coleur [sic] and Inverse. 1964 A. WYKES Gambling vii. 171 (caption) The dealer lays out two rows of cards (le noir and le rouge) until each total 31 or more. Players bet that one or the other row will be nearer to 31 by placing chips on rouge or on noir...