Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Private Ryan: Spielberg's WWII baby is clearly the front-runner here, and notonly because its Oscar victory been foreshadowedby the Golden Globes, the DGA awards and hundredsof critics' associations. Private Ryan is aquintessentially American movie. Despite criticalhyperbole setting the film up as a panculturalantiwar film a la All Quiet on the WesternFront, it is as hyperpatriotic as any JohnWayne picture of the 50s. And that's what theAcademy wants--clean lines. Kill the damnedGermans, and try to get out alive.Shakespeare in Love: John Madden's lovelyfilm came out of nowhere to wow the movie goingpublic with something that rarely...
...down permanent roots. "Sure, you like fly fishing when you do it two weeks a year, but what if that's all you can do for 52 weeks a year?" Howells says. If your vacation town is boarded up in the winter, you may find that the quiet life doesn't stimulate you enough, or that your summer cottage isn't so quaint when the heat doesn't work...
With great reluctance, the owner of an independent bookstore in the picturesque college town of Oxford, Miss., admits that "the quality of life is truly quite good here." Oxford's 11,000 residents would like to keep their quiet, historic city a secret, but the home of William Faulkner and Ole Miss is starting to attract a crowd...
...quiet, patient man who always expressed humility. He never sought praise for his own work," he said. "He was in many ways the quintessential virtuous lawyer...
...minimal compared to the unavoidable, enthralling and unique stage personality of Walker. At first, Walker just appears to be a very strange and eccentric rock star, but it soon becomes apparent that his twisted, emotional facial expressions are part of his wonderfully energetic stage performance. The crowd went quiet when he started whimpering a sad story about walking in on his mother with a gun in his hand. He then hilariously broke the silence with "Mama, just killed a man/Put a gun against his head/Pulled my trigger now he's dead," the opening lyrics of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody...