Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...less expensive alternative is the new REX from Rolodex and Franklin Quest, available for less than $150. About the size of a credit card, the REX holds hundreds of appointments, contacts, and notes, but lacks any input mechanism; all data entry is done on your...
...motorbike off a cliff, we would have said, 'Yeah, that's Michael.' But the suicide is the hardest part to understand. I've never seen him depressed." That irrepressibility may have fueled one early theory about the cause of death: autoerotic asphyxiation. It seemed in keeping with his quest for thrills and new sensations...
Visualizing the Future: The Familiar Made Strange. Jeunet (or his ordinary partner, Marc Caro) has never been a director to bore you with his images, working with whimsy and choosing the spherical or the slimy in quest of audience discomfiture. In an ideal world, this would create bountiful sci-fi by merging with the everyday fear of being alone in a creepy apartment with the feeling that someone's watching or something's awry: (Alien as Repulsion?). Jeunet's possible mis-step in this parade of the pods? Presaging that many scientists of the future would wear the tied back...
Moreover, the subplots are entirely incompatible. While the courtroom drama is an exercise in laughable platitudes, Rudy's quest to save the abused Danes is imbued with vicious reality. Scenes where Danes' husband confronts her with a baseball bat completely betray the light-hearted mood--and, in fact, underscore the inadequacy of the main storyline. Indeed, when the movie drops this subplot abruptly in order to focus on the legal battle, the film grinds to a screeching halt...
...with. Bernard, who became virtually obsessed with the search, eventually concluded that most of the artwork, including the Degas, had been carried off by Soviet troops at the war's end. When Bernard died in 1994, his sister Lili and his sons Simon and Nick took up the quest. By chance, they stumbled onto one of the family's Renoirs, an orchard scene entitled Le Poirier, in an old auction catalog of Parke-Bernet, the corporate predecessor of Sotheby's. That painting is now in London, where the family is trying to get it back. As for the Degas...