Word: nonstop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first view of him could not be more savage. In a dark, scabrous alley he has shoved a woman against a wall and is raping her. For the next two hours, he stumbles through a London nighttown of despairing, inarticulate souls, watching with embittered eyes and delivering mordant, nonstop opinions on everything from Homer to Nostradamus to the Berlin Wall. When last seen, he has been severely beaten and is limping down the middle of a suburban street in an eerie dance to nowhere. As he says, there are plenty of places to go, the problem is where to stay...
...original, plus smaller versions of the pyramids and New York City's Chrysler Building. There's one lively visual joke: after a famine, the sheep Joseph's family tended reappear as skeletons. On the human scale, the show stars Michael Damian's pectoral muscles, which are on all but nonstop display. That is just as well because the rest of his talents range from innocuous to boring. He is a major star if, and only if, you watch the soap opera The Young and the Restless. Robert Torti plays a pharaoh as Elvis. Once you've heard the idea...
...Most of my influences were basically formed between the ages of eleven and eighteen when I read nonstop. I didn't go to school and I didn't have much of another life...
Reeves illuminates such policy crunches, the almost nonstop crises of Kennedy's truncated term, with masterly research and graceful writing. He largely succeeds in recapturing Kennedy's perspective, putting the world into the context of "what he knew and when he knew it and what he actually did" as President...
Concubine is an Eastern film whose subject, scope and nonstop bustle will be agreeable to Western moviegoers. Anyone can appreciate the splendor of the theatrical pageantry or the dagger eyes of Gong Li as a dragon lady whose only commandment is survival. The scenes in the Peking Opera School, where boys are caned for doing wrong or right, are no less horrifying than the later tableaux of public humiliation at the hands of the Maoists. But Chen clearly sympathizes with the schoolmasters. From such brutality, he suggests, artists are created. Concubine offers another moral: From the crushing cultural restrictions...