Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Power and celebrity are not necessarily buffers against the odd little vicissitudes of life. Accidents do happen. Ask any of the following notables...
What is surprising is the fact that the film, after some two-odd hours, continues on. Had Lee decided to end his film at this point, Mo' Better Blues would have been a tragic tale about a man, who, through his own arrogance, brings about his own destruction; a reaffirmation of a moral universe where our actions inevitably have reprocussions. Simple, to be sure, but not insulting...
...touch at negotiating is magic -- people can't seem to tell whether they have come out of a deal with gold or dross, but whatever it is, they're happy. In her professional career Burns has held three positions and adored each one. Add the dozen-odd part-time jobs that she worked at from age 13 on to put herself through school -- she loved them...
...seem odd that Holzer was chosen for the Biennale over artists like Susan Rothenberg or Elizabeth Murray. But one should remember that America is touchy about its lack of literacy; someone must have wanted to stress that American artists can write. Besides, elitism is an extremely dirty word in art circles these days, and whatever else she may be, Holzer is no elitist. Her work is so faultlessly, limpidly pedestrian as to make no demands of any sort on the viewer, beyond the slight eyestrain induced by the LEDs...
...crew chief. His name -- another misfortune -- is Harry Hogge, and he is played by the redoubtable Robert Duvall. Harry is, naturally, stern but forgiving, all business on the track, a free and playful spirit away from it -- as much a fantasy as Cruise's neostud. But Duvall finds an odd shyness in Harry; he doesn't assert goodness, he just kind of, you know, behaves it. Duvall not only grounds his character in reality; he almost succeeds in grounding the whole picture in it as well. Anyway, he gives those grownups who happen to wander in where they...