Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...violent crimes and, at 25, got gunned down in Las Vegas last September. As a budding film star, though, he pinwheeled charm and emotional purity. Shakur, who had acted professionally since he was 12, wasn't quite Sidney Poitier, but in a decent range of roles (in Juice, Poetic Justice, Above the Rim) he showed power and promise...
...particularly in the final scene. When Hamlet finally kills Claudius, after prancing about with Laertes in their respective chest wigs, he does it as if cut from the same cloth as "Flash Gordon." Throwing his rapier from the balcony like a javelin, Hamlet pins Claudius to his throne (note: poetic justice) and swings down on the chandelier in order to splash drops of poison into his mouth, all the while bellowing about his impending death, the stellar revenge he has enacted, and his chest hair. (Well, not really, but Hamlet's expression shows he's thinking about...
...Cult of Moral Grayness," Rand deconstructs the logic of those who assert life is more gray than black and white: "If there is no black and white, there can be no gray--since gray is merely a mixture of the two." How perfectly poetic! How superbly simplistic! (Rand must have been exempt from Lit. & Arts A.) Try mixing yellow, blue and red, my dear...
...pockets. After taxes, his royalties would have stuffed his pockets with something like $300,000--the amount of his fine. Maybe he should hand it over. If nothing else, it would prove that even when you can't count on the rule of law in Washington, there's always poetic justice...
...central performance. "Spuming his lines with catarrhal intakes of breath punctuating the bolts of rhetoric, Branagh is a whiz at making the poetry colloquial and intelligible; he spits out the 400-year-old verse like a rapmaster," says Corliss. "But he can't so easily make it poetic. What's lacking in this merchant of culture is Olivier's danger, the preening beauty and sweet delirium that makes an actor a star. Those are precisely the qualities that keep this admirable ?Hamlet? -- and ?Hamlet? -- from being a thrilling...