Word: onslaughts
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...that it has been a frustrating four years would be an understatement for a team that has accumulated an uncharacteristic 46-65-8 record during that time. Coupled with the burden of a dismal record, however, has been the onslaught of questions and criticisms about a national contender turned mediocre. And most of that burden has fallen straight on the shoulders of the four individuals who have endured the most, the worst...
...emerging in Hong Kong. "I was very apprehensive," he says. "I was waiting for it to come--and it didn't." But another pandemic, he believes, is inevitable. He has given his wife instructions on what to do to survive it: retreat to their mountain cabin until the onslaught passes. It was a tactic, he knows, that was successfully used in 1918 by a village just 30 miles from Brevig. Its elders, after learning of the advancing plague, stationed armed guards at the village perimeter with orders to shoot anyone who tried to enter. The village survived unscathed...
...just all enjoy "All McBeal", and think of it as a funny new drama which happens to feature a young, attractive working woman? Let's not submit ourselves to the onslaught of genderization that continues to consume us. Ally is funny, and that's why we like her. And that's all there...
...portions of the unfinished movie, "he's portrayed as charismatic and good-hearted. You could even say noble." It sounds like an engagingly complex characterization, the kind of thing we need more of in movies. But director Mike Nichols must be wondering whether two months from now, after an onslaught of news reports, press conferences and (Why not shoot for the moon?) impeachment hearings, the public will have any interest in leaving the house and paying money to see a make-believe skirt-chasing President, let alone a putatively noble...
...brutally realistic possibility. The media has the power to whip up an emotional whirlwind so powerful that all of America gets trapped in the show. It is the concept, after all, that makes the disaster movies which studio execs love so deplorably viable. Audiences are bludgeoned with an onslaught of nifty special effects and pounded into submission. Who is to say politics is not the same...