Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seen on screen, his signature puff of white hair arching towards the ceiling, and Young, as they journey on a tour bus through the French countryside. The director discusses religion with his chief star, i.e., how "God was really pissed in the Old Testament." During their discourse, it becomes plain just how much these men share in common. This moment captures the power of the film as a whole, showing how two apparently disparate cultural figures can come together in one well-balanced fusion of music and film...
Martin has always had a keen eye for human foibles, and he expands his considerable talent here in creating a very broad, if occasionally cliched cast of characters. As might be expected, clever retorts fly, the dialogue crackles and some characters come across as just plain silly. Jokes are set up in the beginning of the play, and recur later on, in different contexts, to great effect. The comic material Martin uses in Picasso succeeds in racking up the laughs, although it lacks the slight edge that elevated the best of his earlier into something more provocative and exciting. Still...
...with few exceptions--the popular Sidewalk and Internet Gaming Zone sites chief among them--MSN has failed to attract a mass audience. MSN executives have been shocked by how rarely customers stray beyond plain-vanilla E-mail and online access into the premium programming that was supposed to be the network's drawing card. According to an internal memo distributed last spring, the pay area's most popular channel at the time, Daily Disney Blast, was attracting a dismal 6,000 hits a week...
...private fund-raising "coffees" inside the White House and at a handful of dinners Clinton was host for at the nearby Hay Adams Hotel, could go a long way toward clarifying whether the presidential events were just "listening sessions," as White House officials insist, or illegal fund raisers plain and simple, as Republicans have charged...
...half of the recital. The generic eclectics of these 12 miniatures must have appealed to the amply-repertoired Pollini, who has recorded both Mozart and Stockhausen for Deutsche Grammophon. His technique was particularly well-suited to the fierce leaps and skips of the third prelude, "The Wind of the Plain." It was equally fun to watch him grab fistfuls of notes with such glorious abandon in "The Hills of Anacapri," the ending of which seemed contrived by Debussy to recall the final arpeggio of the earlier "Gardens in the Rain" from his "Estampes." Pollini's mastery of Lisztian technique...