Word: pert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...somewhere beyond the profit motive ought to be the impulse to spread joy. The TS2 directors have that impulse and share it recklessly. Building on the first film's wit and goodwill, they've created vivid new creatures, including one--the pert, hyperventilating Jessie--who is a real doll (batteries not necessary...
...little epic with a big brazen title, Happiness traces the discontents of three sisters--miserable Joy (Jane Adams); pert Trish, the pedophile's wife (Cynthia Stevenson); and best-selling poet Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle)--their beaux and parents (Louise Lasser, Ben Gazzara). The prime setting is New Jersey, which Helen describes as "a state of irony." The whole film could be said to live there--a place where vile acts rub up against a Mantovani rendition of You Light Up My Life...
...principal, the photos are captioned with musings on adolescent sexuality from literary folk like Spenser ("Her nipples like young blossomed jessamine"), Dryden ("Young am I and yet unskilled") and, most appallingly, Anne Frank ("Am I only 14? Am I really still a silly little schoolgirl?"). One photo of a pert but defiant-looking young thing is labeled with an uncredited "Ne touchez pas." Another reads, "Not unless--or until--I say so!" Could you possibly not be wincing? I found myself both amused and repelled by The Age of Innocence--it's as campy as it is creepy. But that...
...body as if it exists merely to carry the head around! In short, these molecules of emotion regulate every aspect of our physiology. A new paradigm has evolved, with implications that life-style changes such as diet and exercise can offer profound, safe and natural mood elevation. CANDACE B. PERT, Research Professor Georgetown University Medical Center Washington...
...there are too many moments in My Best Friend's Wedding when her ferocity reads as near motiveless malignity, especially as it is largely directed at Cameron Diaz's Kimmy, the bride-to-be. She's pert and pretty, smart and spunky--not at all someone we wish ill. When our sympathies shift to her, the movie sours. It is no help either that Ronald Bass neglected to write (or Mulroney was unable to find) a character in Michael. Why all this fuss over this lox, we keep wondering. Director P.J. Hogan (Muriel's Wedding) stages a couple of marvelously...