Word: poetically
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AFTER HIS SPECTACULAR DEBUT LAST YEAR WITH boyz n the Hood, director JOHN SINGLETON was asked what sort of film he would make next. "A masterpiece," said the young tyro. Not according to insiders who have seen a rough cut of Singleton's latest, Poetic Justice, starring Janet Jackson and rapper Tupac Shakur. The audience turned thumbs down when Columbia Pictures held a test screening last month. Singleton lately has been reshooting some scenes...
...heist. It offers analysis of both Madonna (who "exploits her sexuality on her own terms; that means she names the price") and the Madonna ("She has a nice personality; she's also the Mother of God"). It has outlaws and in- laws. It's got tough guys waxing poetic and stupid guys acting tough. If Clint Eastwood were to play all the roles in a Woody Allen movie, it would sound like this: a flinty reading of home truths after the home burned down. "There's no such thing as adventure," the robber says. "No such thing as romance. There...
...Denver: This was unexpectedly an anticlimax; the predicted five inches of snow turned out to be only a light dusting, and the crowd, though intense, was small. In a poetic sense, the 13-month Clinton odyssey should have ended in Albuquerque before finally heading home...
...polemical purposes, any rough sketch of a cartoon African carrying a crate next to a white with a topee and a gun can be turned into a "devastating" indictment of colonialism -- but this doesn't make Basquiat into an artist with an articulate social vision. As for his poetic effusions and snatches of writing, they are mostly fey blither...
...poetic. Red vs. Green. Stop vs. Go. Danger vs. All Clear...