Word: reared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best proof of history are its survivors, and just as a war shrinks in a nation's rear-view mirror as its veterans pass on, the early, headiest days of the Space Age have just gotten a little more remote: Alan B. Shepard, the first American into space, is dead. Though two of those original Mercury seven astronauts have fallen before him, the ebullient, iconoclastic Shepard is the first to go gently, of Nature, of old age. That is not an excuse to begin forgetting...
...wash seduces the Grand Vitara. --Vehicle is massaged by soapy lather and gentle brushes. --Rear angle of [car]. We see water explode off sheet metal. --Interior shot..we see water drops dancing down the windshield. --The dryer caresses the windshield. --The Grand Vitara emerges from the car wash. --From inside, we see the towel boy waiting in awe. --Reverse angle as Grand Vitara emerges. The badge glistens...
...Thompson, is an inspired, perhaps even crazed, tinkerer. He conceives that used frying oil could power engines and rigs a car that actually burns the stuff. He's set for a run across the continent, except that car, driver and passengers drip with sticky oil, and smell like the rear of a trashburger shop. Back to the drawing board...
...American political film ever goes deep and noir into the fear and loathing at the heart of Washington, D.C. The Getaway (1972). Noir cinema reaches its apotheosis with Peckinpah's rendering of Jim Thompson. Throw in the coolest white man ever (Steve McQueen) and you've got a scorcher. Rear Window (1954). Well, actually, the whole Hitchcock canon, actually, but my pick is Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly. Down By Law (1986). Jim Jarmusch's extended character study (incorporating a few digs at Hollywood convention) is probably the funniest American movie ever made. Rebel Without a Cause (1955). The cinematic...
...produced one of the great American biographies. Rockefeller may linger in the national memory as a fading capitalist icon, a moral double exposure from long ago, but his story (and that of Standard Oil and the great trust-busting struggles at the turn of the century) becomes an interesting rear-view mirror at the turn of another century, at a moment when the Federal Government has moved against Microsoft and Bill Gates--the man who, with $48 billion, has surpassed John D. Rockefeller as the richest American ever. Even the tabloid atmospherics of today savor eerily of Hearst and Pulitzer...