Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dracula is indeed a spectacle in the glitzy, multi-media, '90s sense of the word. Multiple brides fly through the air at a rather astonishing pace, a full-sized carriage careens dangerously across the set, gallons of fog are blown onto the stage, and the audience is treated to a rare display of indoor pyrotechnics. So in short, Disney meets The Boston Ballet...
...playing Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon, "swim" into an underwater metropolis at the start of the movie, one feels a tinge of wonder, but it is immediately muddled by over-done special effects. Often, the music is off (John Williams' score seems affixed, chopped up by Lucas' manic pace). And of course, one expects a lot from a Star Wars...
...between Social Security tax collections and pension payouts over the next 30 or so years, and how far any specific proposal would go toward closing that gap, are still anybody's guess. And those guesses depend on such variables as the speed of economic growth, the future pace of inflation and the course of the stock market--all notoriously difficult to predict even a year ahead. Estimates clash so sharply as to invite suspicion that they are shaped more by political bias than by analysis...
...Eventually her rotting corpse was found in his apartment. Having fled the U.S. for Ireland, Einhorn was finally tried in absentia and found guilty of murder. (He's currently in France, where he is appealing extradition.) Out of this intricate, unsettling story has come a flat, ponderous miniseries. The pace is maddeningly sluggish, and Kevin Anderson generates too little of the charisma that the real Einhorn must have possessed...
...What keeps Tintin moving at this relentless pace? The young reader takes it for granted that Tintin will always be on the move, just as he assumes that the Hardy Boys will always be on the trail of one more mystery. But for the grownup reader, it's difficult not to interpret Tintin's constant motion as an evasion of mortality. Tintin's metabolism, like that of all other children's book characters, is governed by a simple law: Stop moving and you grow old and die. Archie and Jughead keep driving around suburbia for the very reason that once...