Word: orderlies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie. Until Woody (now an ant named "Z") gets off the psychoanalyst's couch and walks into "The Colony." The makers of Antz seem particularly interested in demonstrating their ability to depict water and human movement, disregarding the fact that the plot must make some rather forced detours in order to accommodate these animated showpieces. Though the character of Allen as well as those of the other actors (voiced by Dan Akroyd, Anne Bancroft, Sylvester Stalone and Jennifer Lopez among others) take some of the edge of the hackneyed plot, Antz fails to fully engage. --Carla A. Blackmar...
Disappointed by the foreign party crowd, the group heads for the Hong Kong, where scorpion bowls crowd one side of the table as some whose identification received negative reviews from the waiter joined those who chose not to order drinks...
...thought and planning was evident throughout the afternoon. Fans who had paid $50 for Golden Circle charity seats had trouble finding separate access to their center stage seats. Several unlucky individuals were told by security staff to fight their way through the crowd of 100,000 people in order to get to their seats. How fair, not to mention how safe...
...maybe there is hope, after all. Perhaps we can break free of our hopelessly domestic mindsets, our blue jeans and baseball caps, our Starbucks and Sam Adams. Why order a pizza when foccacia has twice the charm? Who needs Poland Spring when San Pellagrino has both bubbles and attitude? Nationalism is so passe...
...this oppression? In the name of order, holiness and purity! Coordinating the crackdown is the "General Department for the Preservation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice," complete with Kalashnikov-carrying religious police who patrol the streets in pick-up trucks flying white flags, the symbol of purity. Aside from killing women who venture out alone to save their dying children, the religious police have lots of duties. They make sure all males grow mandatory beards (violators are locked up for 10 days of "religious instruction"), enforce the ban on music (too hedonistic) and confiscate television sets (the holiness...