Word: overlaying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Costner surely hopes Waterworld returns him to top-star status. The film's trailer suggests a high-voltage adventure with a mythic overlay; James Earl Jones lends his patriarchal voice to images of hope and horror. Jones can also be heard promoting Judge Dredd. His voice is one of many summer-trailer talismans, along with '60s songs, computer imagery, sexual facetiousness of the sort pioneered by James Bond films, and a lot of urgent I-love-you's. In Fluke, one of the summer's few kids' movies, a boy whispers...
...trillion dollars in mortgages is now bound up in mortgage-backed securities, up from zero two decades ago. All told, there's a huge speculative overlay on stocks, bonds, mortgages, corn, hogs, etc., owned by regular people in the real world, which the derivative people refer to as "the underlying." These abstract concoctions are floating over the real world of stocks, bonds, corn and hogs in the same way that the island of Laputa, that fanciful domain of theorizers and stargazers, floated over real towns and villages in Gulliver's Travels...
...revised Kiss in Toronto last summer and for the London run in the fall but would not commit to Broadway until she was given more to do, notably a film-fantasy scene set during the Bolshevik Revolution. Before that was written, Rivera found her role a sort of < decorative overlay, a symbol without a persona. It demanded a lot of her as a singer but not as a dancer or an actress. "I wanted to be a part of the story," she says. "Even now, I can't remember a show where I spent this much time in the dressing...
...five-alarm urgency that defied dampening. "The crying guitar and the screaming voice" are what Bobby Robinson called it, but that was only the foundation of James' style, which, as amply represented here, shows plenty of range. Only the intensity never varies. Talk to Me Baby has a rock overlay; Bobby's Rock spins along with blues underpinnings driving a twangy, near countrified, Duane Eddy-style beat; I Believe makes you hear the grit under the guitar strings, the true Delta way; Anna Lee and Strange Angel feature James with a band, big-city style but still cutting close...
...political calculations are dangerous. This election is between a savvy Democrat, nurtured by a small town and given an overlay of Oxford and Yale, and a duty-driven Republican reared in the nation's richest suburb and now in possession of the most majestic and mighty political office in the world. Given the country's suspicions of bigness and power, planted long ago by Reagan's friend Thomas Jefferson, it is not at all an uneven contest...