Word: preys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reveal the snake eyes of death. Now, with Molly Ringwald as his star and the lure of a PG-13 rating, Toback comes up with the Judy Blume version. Robert Downey (desperately charming) is a young man on the perpetual make; Ringwald (way too pouty) is his mysterious prey, willing to bet her future on a single game of blackjack. With its saucy patter, crisp editing and brazen sentimentality, The Pick-Up Artist is Toback's first conventional, sit-throughable picture. It is also his most negligible. No life or art is on the line here, just the career...
AIDS devastates the human immune system, making the body prey to a variety of maladies. There is no cure for the disease, which strikes mostly male homosexuals and intraveneous drug users...
Caught between the Charles Hotel development and Brattle Square, the area is one of the last in Harvard Square not to have fallen prey to the purveyors of chic boutiques and upscale office space...
Caught between the Charles Hotel development and Brattle Square, the area is one of the last in Harvard Square not to have fallen prey to the purveyors of chic boutiques and upscale office space...
...addition to corporate dominance, this film assumes that most people will be the same greedy, barbarous creatures living out brutish little lives. Criminals will prey upon the innocent, and the authorities will be helpless to stop them. What is needed is a hero, a superhuman police officer who will replace the weak authorities and give the bad guys a dose of their own medicine. In this sense the movie echoes the populism that elected as president a man who dared Congress to "make my day" by sending him a bill to veto...