Word: redeem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard will have one more chance to redeem itself when it travels to Brown next Saturday...
...quality elements of the production can't redeem this fundamental problem; the character of Macbeth is so central to the drama that his presence, and in this case, his imbalance, influences everything around him. Until the play's actors and producers can agree on an interpretation that will both work on all levels of the play's performance and agree with the text on which it is based, this version of Macbeth will be--if you'll forgive the irresistible reference--but a walking shadow: a poor player indeed
They are redundant steelworkers in Sheffield, England, desperate to get off the dole and redeem their ever mounting debts. One night their leader, Gaz (Robert Carlyle, the memorable psychopath Begbie from Trainspotting), happens upon a club where male strippers are playing to a packed and howling house of local lasses, and a cockamamie idea is born. He and his mates could do that--it's semiskilled labor at best--split the obviously splendid take and at least ameliorate their troubles...
...Room is one of three campus restaurants that stay open until 1 a.m. and cater to students' late night cravings. Although the cafe excepts cash, students often redeem lost meals for which they receive $3.25 in "credit...
Ordinarily such trespasses against truth would be enough to condemn such a movie, but Rhames' gravity and grace, Voight's pinched anguish as he wills himself to do right, the moving work of actors like Don Cheadle and Esther Rolle do much to redeem this film for human if not historical reality. Rosewood finds, in a shameful bygone moment, sources of pride for contemporary audiences. There are worse things to do with the past...