Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie's ultimate revelation is disappointing and frankly pretty cheesy, circling (without landing on) a vaguely "spiritual" resolution of Ellie's quest. On an intellectual level, it's no resolution at all but rather a sop of vacuous humanism that teaches Ellie nothing except the value of patience--and perhaps a little humility...
...spends most of his time in jail reading the piles of mail he receives. He also reads books. Last month it was W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge, and he is now finishing Man's Fate by Andre Malraux. A book about a young man's spiritual quest and one about revolutionaries--McVeigh must be taking both seriously...
Martin has helped make Richmond one of the hot spots cropping up in erstwhile advertising backwaters from Portland, Ore., to Winston-Salem, N.C., and Minneapolis, Minn. Periodically, breakaway boutiques emerge from big-city agencies, get hot, then are reabsorbed when they start bagging big accounts. Now, the quest for an advertising edge has sent brands like ESPN and McDonald's scurrying way off Madison...
Ponette is no simple moper. The most sanctified movie masochist since Robert Bresson's Mouchette, she is on her own childhood Calvary, a quest to find her mother in this life or the next. The sight of a child digging furiously into cemetery dirt may upset some viewers; others will wonder if Doillon's manipulation of little Victoire's emotions doesn't come close to child abuse. But it is an amazing performance, or acting out, that expresses the human need for something to believe in. For Ponette it is her mother, an embracing vision of purity and security...
...nose. "It reminds me of white picket fences," she says. Instead, she offers, "I believe in positivity." That attitude is everywhere as Mohajer rushes around her cluttered Beverly Hills, Calif., offices in 3-in. platform shoes, testing eyeliner samples; approving display designs; ordering in pizza; playing A Tribe Called Quest on the sound system ("It's so chill"); promising Liz, her trademark attorney, who drops by, that, yes, she would join her kick-boxing class; and celebrity name-dropping (Alicia Silverstone and Lenny Kravitz use her polish). Recently she dismissed her 61-year-old CEO to assume the title herself...