Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...delicate nature of the film is handled better than one might expect for the directorial debut of Antonio Banderas, whose roles in recent films like Desperado and Mask of Zorro have not exactly demonstrated oodles of sensitivity. While Crazy in Alabama has its redeeming qualities and moments of comic relief (provided by a temperamental court judge and a talking head), its non sequitur scene sequence leaves one feeling a bit unsettled, but certain of one thing: tupperware sure keeps its contents fresh...
...Firebird, however, is not without comic relief. Giant storks, with five-foot long necks, as well as other odd castle creatures provide laughs, but never does Wheeldon lose the carefully cultivated menacing atmosphere of Kastchei's land...
Investigative journalists breathed a collective sigh of relief Wednesday when a federal appeals court ruled that ABC won?t have to pay supermarket chain Food Lion a substantial damage award after all. The decision reverses a verdict that had been seen as a significant erosion of First Amendment rights. At issue was a 1992 "Primetime Live" expos? of unsanitary Food Lion practices such as bleaching old meat to cover its odor and re-dating foods. A North Carolina jury awarded Food Lion $5.5 million (later reduced to $350,000), reasoning that although the allegations were true, the undercover methods used...
Some contenders for this year's Nobel Peace Prize may have breathed a sigh of relief when they learned the award went to someone else...
Failing to tough out my own problems, I hand him my fishing line, which I now have tangled into the shape of a bird's nest, a condor's. He begins to work at it with saintly patience, then to my great relief, shows normal human frustration by letting out an expletive that has to do with maternity and copulation...