Word: paled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death] is to weigh the maggots." And Hoolihan as a drunk, Amis writes, was "like seven terrible dwarves rolled into one...Shouty, rowdy, sloppy, sleazy, nasty, weepy, and horny." Sometimes, it is true, homage descends into bad cliche. Hoolihan's eyes, for instance, are not merely blue; they are "pale blue eyes in her head that have seen everything...
...Wings of the Dove is about Kate Croy (Bonham Carter), a rich, pale orphan who cannot marry the man she loves because he is poor. As a way out of lonely misery, she convinces her dashing lover Merton (Linus Roache) to court her rich, beautiful but ailing friend Millie (Alison Elliott) so she'll leave him all her money...
Interview With the Vampire, in turn, follows Lestat (Tom Cruise), a rich, pale solo-flyer who cannot marry anyone because, well, he's undead. Bear with me. As a way out of lonely misery, he bites and converts dashing Louis (Pitt) and encourages him in turn to vampirize and thus "adopt" a young, beautiful, but ill child named Claudia (Kirsten Dunst...
...when such heights are not reached, the movie degenerates into the plain vanilla horror's episodic nature of red herrings and and-then-there-were-none character elimination. The self-aware cleverness of the movie's premise survives only in spirit, as the events pale in comparison: we feel gypped, but then the movie just set impossible standards for itself...
Point B is now, with Ocon scrambling for extensions, babysitters and sleep--the flip side of life as an undergraduate, whose main extracurricular activity is a bouncing, pale-blond toddler, with rice-cake crumbs streaked across her chin...