Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With its trite plot and random character portrayals, "Romeo is Bleeding" is both an anemic thriller and a colorless black comedy...
...might call the affair Wounded Knee, if that name weren't already taken by some trifling affair involving the loss of several human lives. But the Kerrigan-Harding incident has proven that the American press and public, their thirst for blood slaked on the ubiquitous undercurrent of random violence, have decided that mere carnage is not sufficient qualification for an enduring spot in the news and popular imagination...
Leonard Maltin's review of this film tagged it a "sure bet to become [a] cult item over the years." The surreal disconnection of its random events does give the movie a flavor similar to cult director David Lynch's work (presumably why it has been billed with his "Eraserhead"). But Polanski, both as actor and director, lacks the energy and abandon that have made Lynch's films so successful. Instead of being exhilarating, Trokovsky's illogical behaviour is simply frustrating. For those obsessed with the surreal The Tenantwill be an intruguing period piece. For the rest...
...Coyle tells it, decide to help out with a Little League that's getting started in darkest Cabrini-Green. Cabrini is a 70-acre failed social experiment known, in understated terms, as the worst low-rent development in the U.S. From its high-rises rifle fire sweeps down, both random and specific, as rival gangs contest territory and drug- marketing turf. In Cabrini, as Coyle relates, "gunfire is discussed like weather. Better go shopping early, because they're gonna shoot tonight. They sure were shooting last night, weren't they? They was shootin' early this morning, but then...
Three years ago this month, on the night the U.S. launched an air war against Iraq, I scampered through Harvard Square in the rain, reporter's notebook in hand, recording the reactions of random members of the Harvard community, asking stupid questions like, "So, what do you think...