Word: reels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...series isn't without its share of technical glitches. There were a number of reel "jumps" and discontinuities in "Lawrence"--due, perhaps, to the sheer age of the reel); and more frustratingly, occasional sound lapses in "Hamlet" (if there's anything that absolutely shouldn't have sound problems, it's a Shakespeare film). This is also not exactly paradise for people who hate crowds. To get a good seat, you need to come early and wait in a line reminiscent of a Disney World ride; but once seated, you need to wait until the theater is filled to capacity...
...action star--your Arnold, your Sly--is a slab. Cinematic granite: a sullen face, eyes from beyond the grave and the subtlety of a steamroller. Then there's Cage. Onscreen he's quicksilver, always moving and creepily intense, more like the wily loon that Stallone would blow away in Reel 5. Cage is a prime serious actor, and he has last year's Best Actor Oscar, for his role as the weary romantic suicidal alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas, to prove it. "I never saw myself as a realist," he says. "I always saw myself as a stylist trying...
Powered by baby food and bananas, 22-year-old SUSIE MARONEY of Australia became the first woman to swim from Cuba to Florida in her second attempt at that odyssey last week. Inside a sharkproof cage attached to the good ship Reel Lady, Maroney crawled 112 miles in 24 1/2 hours. In the wee small hours she hallucinated, seeing monkeys in the water. And to distract herself from the hammerhead sharks cruising by, she mentally replayed Seinfeld episodes. Upon arrival in Florida, her tongue swollen from salt water, her skin tattooed with jellyfish stings, she said, "So many times...
...think to yourself, if Harvard can reel in the best students and professors alike and can provide me with more speeches, concerts and exhibits than I could possibly attend, why can't it consistently show me a good time...
Those are the main jobs. She's also got to keep her boss from stumbling into any unexpected crises, and she brings to this a passion for problem solving and cutting through diplospeak. When she sits down with her senior aides each morning, they reel off two-minute reports on North Korean famine, the chemical-weapons treaty pending in Congress, the hostage standoff in Peru. "How does our policy jibe with Peruvian policy?" she demands as she prepares for a meeting with President Alberto Fujimori. "I'm fascinated to know what's happening inside that embassy...